HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 05: Rob Ninkovich (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
Things don’t always turn out the way you intended them to, but occasionally, after a few years of floating, your grand plan falls bizarrely into place.
Such is the case with Rob Ninkovich, New England Patriots linebacker turned aspiring member of the NFL media.
This draft day, Ninkovich is able to sit back from a place of comfort and strength and get to work evaluating hundreds of NFL hopefuls who are about to enter the most stressful day of their professional lives, uncertain where their suitcase will lie tomorrow.