Scot McCloughan and Mike Nolan were having a barbecue dinner at Nolan's house the day before the 2005 draft when McCloughan's phone rang.
On the other end was a 21-year-old running back from the University of Miami named Frank Gore. He was emotional, distraught and talking a mile a minute about what would happen the next day. Five teams had told Gore they were looking at him in the first or second round. Others had crossed him off their list. Gore didn't know what to believe.
"I said, 'Whoa, who, whoa. Slow down, Frank,'" McCloughan recalled. "Eventually he said, 'What do you think?