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With the 25th pick of the fourth round--119th overall--the Seattle Seahawks took Kacyvenski, Harvard's all-time leading tackler, a three-time All-Ivy First Teamer and the first player to start all 40 games of a Crimson football career...
...pick was somewhat surprising because Seattle had not shown much interest leading up to the draft...
...Bengals called before draft started around 10:30 a.m. yesterday, and they had the third pick at start of fourth round," Kacyvenski said. "The linebacker coach said 'I'm pulling for you, and if we don't get you now, we'll get you next round...
...Football Weekly listed as one of Kacyvenski's negatives--as it did for the last Harvard draftee, offensive lineman Matt Birk, a sixth-round pick two years ago--that Kacyvenski "has excellent off-the-field options." Yet he was able to shake the Ivy League stereotypes and now will be competing at the highest level of football...
Kacyvenski returns to school today to finish up his degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy. He might be the only NFL draft pick who spent last summer working in a research...