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Indiana football and the NFL Draft: A weird history

The year is 1994.

Boyz II Men owns the Billboard top-100. The Lion King and Forrest Gump are No. 1 and 2 in the domestic box office. Newt Gingrich launches the Republican Revolution during the first Clinton Administration.

And the New York Football Giants select Indiana football wide receiver Thomas Lewis with the 24th overall pick in the first round of the 1994 NFL Draft. The Houston Texans do not exist. The Carolina Panthers are a year away from their inaugural season.

Lewis, who was born in 1972, goes on to play 34 games in the NFL, catching 74 passes for 1,032 receiving yards and five touchdowns.