If former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett could have a do-over, he’d use it on the 2017 NFL Draft. Infamously passing on then-Wisconsin pass rusher T.J. Watt for Michigan’s Taco Charlton, Garrett couldn’t help but express his regret after watching Watt torture another offense.
Ahead of Sunday night’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio spoke with Watt. And during that 2017 draft, Watt was convinced he was heading to Dallas.
“He told me, Coach Garrett, when the phone rang and the Steelers picked him seven years ago, he thought it was you,” Florio said on Football Night in America.