FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- When the New England Patriots selected offensive tackle Sebastian Vollmer in the second round of the 2009 draft, it was labeled as a reach by draft analysts. Vollmer, of the University of Houston, hadn't even been invited to the combine.
In Michael Holley's book "War Room", Bill Belichick also acknowledged, "There was no way he was really a second-round pick. He should have been a fourth- or fifth-round pick, by the film, by his performance. But you saw him as an ascending player and he had rare size, and there were a lot of things that you had to fix and all that.