The Cowboys didn’t think Prospect X would be available after the draft. “I was just playing baseball for fun and then accidentally got drafted.” kalynkahler on the most overlooked player in the NFL Draft: West Florida's David Durden.
X’s mom wears a custom-made gray draft day shirt with letters on the back that read “X is the wide receiver your coach warned you about.” She makes the rounds to chat with friends and family who are busy heaping plates full of Boston butt, baked beans and potato salad.
X never was truly himself as a baseball player because football was the sport he couldn’t live without, so when a Red Sox scout showed up at one of his last high school games, X thought he was there to see the team’s pitcher. No, I’m here to see you, the scout told him. “What is even going on right now?” he remembers thinking. “I was so confused. I had zero intent of playing baseball, and my name is called on the TV.”
By the middle of the sixth round, X is starting to get the feeling he won’t be drafted for the second time in his life. His agents have heard from seven different teams interested in signing X as an undrafted free agent. One team even offers a priority free-agent deal during the fourth round. As the sixth round moseys along, X and his agents have narrowed the pool down to two suitors:The AthleticDenver head coach Sean Payton calls to make his pitch. So does Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy.
NFL evaluators track prospects’ ages like doting parents of newborns. Durden is 24 years and four months, which used to be an unheard-of age for a rookie. But now that players are using their extra year of eligibility from the 2020 season, old age isn’t as scary to evaluators as it once was. Durden knew a lifetime of baseball wasn’t for him about midway through that summer, when during one long, boring and extremely hot game, Kotchman asked him a simple question. How is the game going?Mercer coaches were thrilled to hear from him and welcomed him back. By the time his rookie-league season ended, he was too late to enroll in classes, so he went to work on a farm and enrolled that winter.
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