Ron Wolf’s going into the Hall of Fame in large part for finding a future Hall of Fame quarterback for the Packers.
But it was a move he didn’t make with the Raiders that enabled him to find another one.
Via Jerry McDonald of the Bay Area News Group, Wolf recounted the turn of events that left him with Hall classmate Tim Brown. As it turns out, he was supposed to make a deal for Paul Gruber, so Brown was a pretty good consolation prize.
His boss Al Davis was hoping Wolf could parlay the sixth and ninth picks in the 1988 NFL Draft into something that would allow him to draft the Wisconsin guard.