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Tom Brady
Photo: Paul Sancya / AP
If you watch the videos of Tom Brady's practice session prior to the Spring 2000 Best College Football Player Selection process, it's hard to understand his later career path.
A 22-year-old sprints there so slowly that it could also be considered an endurance run.
His movements seem lanky, more like those of a teenager who spends more time in front of the Playstation than on the football field.
Years later, a comment below the video read: "Like Jim Carrey trying to play Tom Brady in a film role."
198 college players were selected before Brady before the New England Patriots struck.
The legend that almost nobody wanted.
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