Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow signed a Minor League deal with the Mets on Thursday. Tebow, 29, will participate in the club's instructional league in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Tebow hasn't played competitive baseball since 2005, his junior year at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Verde, Fla., where he was a three-sport standout, also playing basketball and, of course, football.
Tebow, who led the University of Florida to two national titles and won the 2007 Heisman Trophy, held a workout in Los Angeles for Major League teams on Aug. 30.
Tebow was a first-round selection in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos and led them to a division title in 2011, but was traded to the New York Jets the following year when the team signed Peyton Manning.