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.