Blake Bortles was stunned when his phone rang after the No. 1 pick was announced during the 2014 NFL draft.
The Oviedo High quarterback shattered records, but college recruiters weren’t sold on him. SEC schools offered him scholarships to play tight end, but he spurned them to pursue his quarterback dreams at nearby UCF.
Offseason training and a barrage of pre-draft interviews led up to the phone call from the Jacksonville Jaguars on this date in 2014. The Jags informed Bortles they were taking him with the No. 3 pick.
“Can’t describe it,” Bortles told the Orlando Sentinel the night he was drafted.