First came a phone call from Pete Carroll. Then I heard NFL commissioner Roger Goodell call my name: “With the sixth pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the Seattle Seahawks select Russell Okung, offensive tackle, Oklahoma State.”
Finally, as I looked at my family, tears flowed.
That moment at the draft in New York — something I’d dreamed of since I was a kid from Texas — made me the first pick of the John Schneider-Carroll regime and was the moment of a lifetime. My dream of being in New York, of clutching a No.