His just-completed Hall of Fame career has made it mostly an afterthought, but Peyton Manning's decision to play his senior season at Tennessee was a big deal.
Manning was able to graduate early from UT after his junior year in 1996, and he would have been the No. 1 overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft.
The then-St. Louis Rams held the top pick that year, and they eventually took offensive tackle Orlando Pace. But who knows what could have happened had Manning been in that quarterback-light draft (the only quarterback picked in the first round was Jim Druckenmiller).