Spencer Brown was a star on the Lenox High School football team. He punted, caught passes, blocked, tackled and did everything his team needed him to do. The only thing he couldn’t seem to do? Catch the attention of big college programs.
Now people are noticing him.
Brown, who was heavily overlooked in high school and went on to play and star at Northern Iowa, was selected in the third round of the NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills on Friday.
The 6-foot-9, 313-poound offensive lineman, who only generated a handful of scholarship offers—none from any true heavy hitters—came to Northern Iowa as a tight end but transitioned into the offensive line.