FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Tommylee Lewis was barely recruited out of high school. And Sean Payton admitted that Lewis was nowhere near the New Orleans Saints’ radar coming out of Northern Illinois.
“When I say not on the radar, I mean not on the radar, like, at all,” Payton stressed.
But now the dynamic 5-foot-7, 168-pound receiver looks poised to crack the Saints’ 53-man roster as an undrafted rookie.
And he has Bill Parcells to thank.
“This was his guy,” Payton said of Parcells, who has become a mentor to both Payton and Lewis.