Four years ago, Jonathan Grimes sat in his New Jersey kitchen waiting for a phone call that would never come during the 2012 NFL Draft. Born and raised in Palmyra, Grimes recalls being with his family, not as surprised about being undrafted as he was about what would happen next.
“I was kind of getting the gist that I’d probably be undrafted so I was ready for that, but that day my phone started blowing up,” Grimes said Tuesday on Texans Radio. “As soon as the draft was over, teams were calling because they wanted me to come out there.