What would Michael Dickson have said if you told him when he left his native Australia and Aussie Rules Football to sign with the University of Texas that he’d be in the Pro Bowl three years later?
“I probably wouldn’t have known what the Pro Bowl was back then,” Dickson said.
“Back then” was all the way back in...2015.
Yes, only three years into competitive football, Dickson is now the best in the world at what he does. This week Seattle’s fifth-round draft choice that has paid off more handsomely and immediately than any Seahawk imagined became the NFL’s first rookie punter selected to the Pro Bowl in 33 years.