When Jim Mora signed as the Saints head coach in 1986 and brought with him a 5’9” middle linebacker named Sam Mills from the USFL’s Baltimore Stars, it is unlikely that anyone in New Orleans would have believed one day that Mora would be inducting Mills into Canton. Imagine if I told you that the Saints were signing the current USFL champion Birmingham Stallions middle linebacker Terrill Hanks, and that he was going to have a hall of fam career in the NFL. No disrespect to Hanks, but that would sound unbelievable.
The writing on the wall was there for Mills in 1986 however.