Madison.com · Jan 30, 2018
Through setbacks and pay cuts, Danny Amendola keeps thriving in crunch time
New England Patriots receiver Danny Amendola has been one of the team's most clutch options in big games. (USA Today Sports)With Wes Welker perhaps opening the door for the patented “white slot guy,” there was an opening for a player such as Amendola to get his foot in the door in the NFL. (It might not have hurt that Welker and Amendola were almost identical sizes and from the same school, Texas Tech.)
But from signing with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2009 to landing a few months later with the Philadelphia Eagles, Amendola never got his footing.
“You know you don't really know when you're the last man on the depth chart,” Amendola said. “You're hardly in the league.”
