The draft may not yet be officially over but by the seventh round, those players yet to hear their name called are getting ready for Plan B. That’s when teams and draft prospects start discussing UDFA contracts to get ahead of the chaos that occurs once the draft is officially over.
With 20 picks to go in the 2021 NFL Draft, punter Pressley Harvin III began making those plans. As he tells Steelers.com’s Teresa Varley in a great feature piece, Harvin was on the phone with Falcons’ head coach Arthur Smith when the 412 interrupted the call.