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...with just six picks remaining in seventh and final round of the 2005 NFL Draft, the St. Louis Rams ensured that Fitzpatrick would be the first Crimson player to be drafted since Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00, and the first Harvard quarterback since Brian Buckley...
Died. Sam Mills, 45, diminutive but determined former NFL linebacker who, at 5 ft. 9 in., went on to coach outsize linebackers for the Carolina Panthers and helped guide the little regarded team to a surprise Super Bowl berth in 2004; after a nearly two-year battle with intestinal cancer; at his home in Charlotte...
...NFL Combine, Fitzpatrick garnered national publicity for his score on the Wonderlic Personnel Test. The economics concentrator reportedly got a perfect score on the 12-minute, 50-question intelligence exam, finishing with enough time to check over his answers...
...undefeated season when Fitzpatrick was a freshman. “Fitzy’s obviously great and especially for Division I-AA he’s exceptional. The record was great, his stats were great, but I didn’t know how it would translate to the NFL, or the NFL Draft. And then I saw the all-star games, and how the scouts were talking. I flagged him as someone to keep an eye on. But what really put it over the top was the story about the Wonderlic...
...personal theory is that [New England head coach] Bill Belichick—who appreciates, probably more than anyone in the NFL a player’s intellectual skills—has Fitzy’s name written on a board somewhere,” Shanoff said. “He’s going to grab him in the 6th round, and he’ll be backing up Tom Brady...