Nicholas Morrow wasn't an All-State football player at Huntsville High School, although the Panthers went to the ASHSAA playoffs in each of his varsity seasons. He didn't have college recruiters hounding him for a verbal commitment, and he went to NCAA Division III Greenville.
Now, with the NFL set to kick off its 2017 season on Thursday night, Morrow is a member of the Oakland Raiders.
He's one of three undrafted rookies with Alabama football roots to hold a spot on an NFL active roster on the day of the season-opening game. As an illustration of the volatility of NFL rosters: There were three undrafted rookies from Alabama on active rosters after teams announced their cuts to reduce the 90-player preseason rosters to the regular-season limit of 53 on Saturday, they just weren't the same three.