I don't remember that but I know Tanard Davis had some run with the Colts and someone else too. I forget the name.
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Javon Nanton was a walk-on who was a pretty good player for UM. A serviceable player. I believe Aaron Moser and Jeff Popovich were originally walk-ons too.
Yea Nanton started as a walk on. But I don't recall a 1st rounder.
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Javon, by technical definition of how he joined the team, was a walk-on. Literally a walk-on like Santana was. He was in the good ol' days when Miami would slide a 4 star level guy on the team via track scholarship.
No slight to the esteemed Mr. Popovich, but my dog was on a different planet as a recruit than him or any other walk-on we could mention.
We all graduated in '01. That cycle, Willie Jones from CC later FSU was considered the best DE/Edge in the state. That was one of biggest crocks of **** I've heard in the last 25 years. That senior season, I played against Carol City and Springs. Nanton>>>>>>>Jones.
But Javon didn't have an NFL dad, Walt Frazier, and 12-15 other D1-A level players on his team also. Dudes slipped through the cracks back in '01, and bruh definitely was in that group. Had he did like Willis and Nuke, he would've been a waaay bigger recruit than he was.
I'm just glad that we were leaders in alternative talent acquisition back then. Otherwise, could you imagine a world in which we woulda had to deal with playing Loserville with a Nanton-Dumervil duo screaming off the edges?!?!