How does a football player come out of nowhere undrafted and ball in the NFL? The main reason is the draft is an inexact science that uses a player’s past to predict his future. His NFL Scouting Combine performance has a little something to do with it too. The size of the school he’s coming from and off-the-field life will also weigh in heavy.
It doesn’t take athletes in their early 20s long to get stronger and faster and develop their skills. So it’s easy to see how a player can seemingly ‘come out of nowhere’ and start balling after going undrafted.