If Psalm Wooching had ignored what he felt was his sporting destiny, then he would have been in Hawaii this week, with his family, waiting on the call from his agent to tell him which of the interested NFL franchises had drafted him. Instead he is in Seattle, having just returned from a trial at French top-flight side Pau, planning his rugby union career.
Wooching, 23, captained the Washington Huskies in 2017, anchored their top-ranked defense as an outside linebacker and was hot property. But amid the calls from agents, it just didn't feel right.
"I could've entered the draft and I could have had the American dream that every kid wants," Wooching tells ESPN.