DeMarcus Lawrence remembers getting the call.
"I'm going to the hospital," his fiancée, Sasha Almeida, told him. "My water broke."
Lawrence had just flown to Dallas for his rookie minicamp, days after the Cowboys traded up to draft him 34th overall in 2014. Almeida had prayed through Lawrence's draft weekend that she wouldn't go into labor. She flew to Vegas for his draft party while nine months pregnant, against doctor's orders.
Now here 22-year-old Lawrence was, unable to catch a flight to Boise in time. He watched his first son's birth over FaceTime from his hotel room at the Gaylord, 1,600 miles away.