FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Had things broken differently at the end of the 2009 NFL draft, Julian Edelman would have been a Green Bay Packer instead of a New England Patriot.
That was part of a story Edelman told Tuesday night during an appearance on NFL Network's "Total Access" program, as he reflected on not being invited to the NFL combine and then getting to the later stages of the seventh round and not having his name called.
Edelman had worked out twice for the Patriots, first with running backs coach Ivan Fears and then with special teams coach Scott O'Brien, but didn't take a pre-draft visit with them.