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OLB Quincy Roche Expected To Be Drafted Higher: ‘It Was A Long Three Days Sitting On The Couch’

Things don’t always work out the way you expect them to; sometimes it’s better not to have any expectations. But sometimes that defiance of expectations can also fuel you to strive for more.

New Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Quincy Roche didn’t think that he would still be sitting at home waiting for a phone call by the time teams were picking in the sixth round, but there he was, and he was pretty honest about his believe that he should have and expected to go earlier.

I expected to go higher in the draft. I’ll shoot you straight”, he told reporters during his introductory conference call yesterday.