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...Tillman helped the Sun Devils come achingly close to a national championship in that year's Rose Bowl. All the same, prior to the NFL draft the following year, the labels "too small" and "too slow" still clung to him. He came to the Cardinals as a seventh-round pick, 226th out of 241 overall. His signing bonus was meal money by NFL standards, just $21,000. Since he didn't have a car, he commuted to the Cards' training camp riding his green Schwinn bicycle. "But you couldn't tell him he couldn't make it in the NFL...
Though 2003 Harvard football captain Dante Balestracci was not picked in last weekend’s NFL Draft, his chances of joining the pros are by no means shot...
Whether that confidence in their picks will pan out in a spot on an NFL roster is as yet up in the air. While Siedlecki compared Lawrie favorably to Johnson—“a receiver who survives as a blocker”—and acknowledged that he has both the size and the intellect to succeed at the professional level, the speed of the game will certainly take some adjusting to if his stay is to last...
Both Carl Morris ’03 and Jamil Soriano ’03 went unpicked in last year’s draft before inking deals with NFL clubs...
...main thing is to try to get signed, be out there with some type of film, playing against other guys,” Balestracci said. “That will open up a lot of doors, NFL Europe, training camp...