The NFL's international avenues have been one of the stories of this draft cycle, with players selected from countries around the world and picks made by fans spanning even greater distances.
But traveling from County Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, to North Carolina, with a stop in Australia, on to Rutgers University then the New York Giants is a new one, even in this age of the global NFL.
That's the path taken by Ireland's Jude McAtamney, an Ulster Under-20 Gaelic football champion with Derry in 2018, who initially made the plunge into American football after seeing a compatriot commit to Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 2020.