Aaron Shea can laugh over the fact he is selling title insurance 16 years after his dear friend and Michigan teammate, Tom Brady, wondered if he would end up in the same profession. Brady was picked 199th in the 2000 draft by the New England Patriots, or 89 spots after Shea was picked by the Cleveland Browns, and the quarterback knew he was on shakier ground than the tight end.
Brady looked around coach Bill Belichick's first camp in New England and worried that the numbers game was tilted against him. "Tommy wasn't sure he was going to make the team," Shea recalled.