A career that Saturday will reach for its pinnacle with an attempt to be included in the Pro Football Hall of Fame began quite modestly 20 years ago. Jason Taylor was only a third-round draft pick and reported to the Miami Dolphins hoping to make the practice squad.
“I didn’t know what I was going to be,” Taylor said Friday from his room in this town where the 2017 Hall of Fame class will be picked. “I didn’t know how the NFL was going to work out. I didn’t know if I belonged there yet.
“I heard the NFL guys were making $7,500 a week, or whatever the number was for the practice squad, so I just said, ‘I just want a chance.