FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Keion Crossen spent most of Saturday doing what all NFL bubble players do: wondering, worrying — and, most importantly, refreshing his phone.
“All day. Every second hitting refresh, refresh the Twitter page or whatever you got to do,” Crossen said Sunday after making the New England Patriots’ final roster as a seventh-round draft pick.
Then came 4 p.m. Saturday — and the phone did not ring.
“It didn’t ring. That’s a good sign,” said Crossen, who spent the day with some teammates, two of whom didn’t make it.
The cornerback from Western Carolina, once a 147-pound high school quarterback, had made it to the opening roster of a team seeking its sixth Super Bowl win this century.