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Tim Couch looks back at the night he was the NFL Draft’s No. 1 pick

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It has been 20 years since the kid from Lynch, Ky., became the No. 1 overall selection in the 1999 NFL Draft.

And as the 2019 version begins Thursday in Nashville, what does Tim Couch remember of that night two decades ago in New York?

“We actually signed the contract with the Browns in the men’s room there at Madison Square Garden,” Couch said Tuesday.

That’s one anecdote on what was a surreal evening for the former Kentucky quarterback, who had led the Wildcats to the Outback Bowl his junior season before being chosen first overall by the expansion Cleveland Browns.