Who is the best late round pick in NFL history?
Let's take a lot at the best late round pick that ended up as the greatest ever in NFL history.
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The 2023 NFL Combine ended a few weeks back and players impressed everyone present from the teams around the league with their skills. After seeing the performance of these young prospects, it was clear which players would be taken off the board in the first round for the 2023 draft.
This year’s draft class is filled with great quarterback talents and almost four of them are predicted to be first-round picks, with Anthony Richardson being their first overall pick. The first pick in every draft is expected by default to be an outstanding player and lead the franchise to greatness. However, it isn’t true in every case. Many of the first-round picks turn out to be busts.
In other cases, players drafted in the later rounds are better players than those selected before them. There have been a lot of players who have risen to greatness from the bottom of the draft pool, such as Shannon Sharpe, Ken Houston, and Richard Dent, to name a few. But have you wondered who is the best late-round pick to ever play in the NFL? Let’s take a look at the player who scripted history despite being a late-round pick.
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The best late-round pick in NFL history
This isn’t that hard to guess. Everyone loves him. Even those who hate him secretly love him and even though everyone was sick of hearing about him every single day, there is no denying the fact that Tom Brady is the greatest late-round pick in NFL history. Period. Brady was selected in the sixth round 199th overall of the 2000 NFL draft by the New England Patriots.
There is literally no football fan who doesn’t know the story of how Tom Brady wrote his own destiny with his hard work and hunger to win and became the greatest quarterback to ever play in the NFL. Despite being the 199th pick, Brady showed everyone they were wrong to pass over him when he got the chance. He got his start as the quarterback of the Patriots in 2001 and led them to a Super Bowl victory and the rest, as they say, is history.
Brady played in New England for two decades, where he created the Patriots dynasty by winning six Super Bowls. He then played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he won his seventh Super Bowl. The 45-year-old has three Hall of Fame careers that include 7x Super Bowl rings, 5x Super Bowl MVPs, 3x NFL MVPs, and countless records that won’t fit on one page.
On February 1, 2023, Tom Brady announced his second and final retirement from football breaking everyone’s hearts. He retired as one of the greatest to ever do it and as the best late-round pick in NFL history. Because there is no player who can match the greatest coming from where he came.
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