After playing the final game of his collegiate career for Oklahoma in January 2020, Jalen Hurts checked his Instagram messages. One of them was from NFL agent Nicole Lynn: “Hey, have you picked an agent? If not, I’d love to link.”
“A total Hail Mary,” is how Lynn describes it.
It was beyond a long shot. Most players entering the draft have long since picked an agent by January.
Lynn went to OU law school, and her husband had played at Alabama, where Hurts won a national championship before becoming a Sooner. She also already represented about a dozen Alabama alumni, including offensive tackle Evan Neal, Alabama’s highest drafted player in school history.