NFL Draft day, April 2000. Phones buzzing, players wiping the cheerful tears from their eyes because some got the calls they were hoping for - others were wiping them for different reasons.
They were in the same position that a 21-year old Ahman Green was in 1998. Instead, he was watching from his agent Leigh Steinberg's office in California. Waiting. Steinberg, meanwhile, answering phone calls from the likes of Kansas City and Miami's front offices. After the "brutal" wait, as Green would say, he finally landed in Seattle and spent his first pair of seasons with the Seahawks.