The best NFL player from a Utah school in 2019 would have been content to play basketball in high school, except the team desperately needed a linebacker and one of the players begged him to try the sport. And when he showed signs of developing into a good football player, he was recruited to Utah State during the program's worst era.
That background makes Bobby Wagner’s rise to the NFL’s elite level seem unlikely, but it has happened in Seattle. The Seahawks linebacker is at the top of his profession, having personally negotiated the highest annual salary at his position this summer and being ranked the No.