Nick Mangold was never much of a football history nerd.
On the first big day of his NFL career, the 2006 draft, Mangold recalled that while he knew he could be a late-first-round pick, he was playing golf early in the day and missed a bunch of the early picks, including the Jets' fourth selection of tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson.
He said he didn't know until months later, at his first Jets training camp, that "Nick and Brick" were the first pair of offensive linemen taken in Round 1 by the same team since 1975. He didn't hear the Jets were involved in a three-team trade for that 29th overall pick until "at least, like, two years after that.