One in a series previewing the 2018 NFL Draft on April 26-28 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington
Nic Shimonek had less than 60 in his high school graduating class at Mildred.
The small-town school near Corsicana, as he’s been told, had never produced a Division I football player.
Shimonek changed that.
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He started his college career at Iowa and ended it at Texas Tech. Now Shimonek is on the verge of becoming an NFL player, something almost unheard of for someone from the town of about 350.