Tessa Grossman was about to get into her mother's white Mazda on May 3 when a notification popped up on her cell phone. Home in California for a couple of weeks after the spring semester of grad school at Illinois State, she saw whom the email was from and started getting nervous before she even opened it.
Five days earlier, she completed a first interview with the Atlanta Falcons for a Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship during training camp. Her interviewers said they'd be in touch. This email from Sarah Hogan, Atlanta's assistant director of coaching operations, could be good news.