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Rote cautioned, however, that Fitzpatrick’s status as a seventh-rounder was far from ignoble...
...Rams, known over the past five years as “The Greatest Show On Turf” for their high-powered offense, chose Fitzpatrick as the 36th pick of the seventh round and the 250th pick overall. The Crimson captain was the only Ivy player picked in this year’s draft...
...would follow in the footsteps of more recent Harvard graduates Jamil Soriano ’03, Carl Morris ’03, and Dante Balestracci ’04—all former Crimson standouts who had hopes of being drafted but eventually signed as free agents. By the seventh round, Fitzpatrick and his agent, Kyle Rote, Jr., were busily preparing for that eventuality...
...known players such as Tulsa’s James Kilian and USC’s Matt Cassel. Cassel, who saw little action as junior Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart’s backup this season for the national champion Trojans, was taken by the New England Patriots in the seventh round in a move that surprised many who predicted that Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick had his eye on Fitzpatrick as a late-round pick...
...thing that people often forget is that there used to be 20 rounds,” Rote said. “To be drafted in the seventh round is still a significant honor. The quarterbacks from Florida [State], Miami, the former Heisman trophy winner, the all-time leader in NCAA passing yards—all of them were not drafted...