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Fitzpatrick was the fourth draftee to reach terms with the team, as safety Jerome Carter, fullback Madison Hedgecock and offensive lineman Claude Terrell have signed three-year contracts since April. The Rams drafted Fitzpatrick in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL draft, the 250th pick overall...
...Tuesday, though, the news is official: Fitzpatrick has signed a contract with the Rams. Details of the deal were not released, but he is expected to receive league minimum, plus a signing bonus. According to NFL sources, signing bonuses for seventh-round picks average...
...more like a prison movie; the guys on the quad rugby Team USA have the grizzled machismo of lifers. Or sports studs. Mark Zupan, right, goateed and tattooed, is as focused as any pro lineman. And Joe Soares, who runs the Canadian team, has the martinet tone of an NFL coach. Soares went north after the U.S. dropped him from the squad. There's bad blood, and it will be spilled...
...course, that is the way the Class of 2005 will be remembered also. But with 33 wins—the most in any four-year period since 1909—two perfect seasons, two Ivy titles, and an NFL-drafted quarterback to its name, limiting its accomplishments to just four wins over Yale would be selling its members more than a little bit short...
...stabilized a notoriously shoddy Crimson kicking game in just his first year on the team. Senior wide receiver Brian Edwards, on the heels of a breakout season the year before, made the Harvard special teams into his own private highlight reel—including four returns for touchdowns. Future NFL draftee and Ivy Player of the Year Fitzpatrick, with pro scouts watching his every move, kept his focus and provided the team with unquantifiable leadership...