All the successes of Michael Dickson’s initial NFL season — earning the first Pro Bowl bid for a rookie punter since 1985 while setting a slew of Seahawks records and achieving cult status along the way — were rooted in his greatest disappointment.
And on a recent day at the team’s training facility, Dickson marveled at the twists of fate that led him to sitting in an NFL locker room and regarded as a budding star at his position at the age of 22.
If he’d been taken in the Australian Football League draft on that November day in 2014, he says, none of this would ever have occurred.