Three weeks ago, Ryan Nall spotted one notably familiar face while moving through Halas Hall, the headquarters of the Chicago Bears in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Amid a blur of conversations with the general manager, assistant coaches, scouts and other personnel during a pre-draft team visit, Mark Helfrich emerged.
"When we were talking, he was saying how it's funny that he could have recruited me when we were 130 miles apart," Nall told The Oregonian/OregonLive. "Now, he's recruiting me when we're 1,000 miles apart. It's funny and ironic. Things came full circle."
As it would turn out, the former Oregon Ducks head coach who didn't recruit Nall to Eugene has put his faith in the former Oregon State Beaver as a running back.