Every year, weird things happen in the later rounds, and this year, the Seattle Mariners joined in on the shenanigans.
The Mariners used their 24th round pick (the number worn by Ken Griffey Jr.) to draft Griffey’s son, Trey, a student-athlete at the University of Arizona.
Problem is, the Mariners play baseball, and Trey Griffey most decidedly does not.
"Everybody says I chose football because I couldn't live up to my dad's standards," Trey said in the piece on USA Today from 2012 linked above. "Let people talk, You know what you can do, but you also want to prove to other people who don't want to believe in you, who believe you get here for other reasons, that you don't earn it.