In 1998, a wide receiver the NFL had blacklisted in the draft fell to the 21st pick; 1 season later, he had rewritten every receiving record a rookie had ever touched and the league was quietly terrified
- Posted on October 1, 2026
- By The Times of India
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In 1998, a wide receiver the NFL had blacklisted in the draft fell to the 21st pick; 1 season later, he had rewritten every receiving record a rookie had ever touched and the league was quietly terrified
Randy Moss waited. Twenty teams passed on the Marshall receiver in the 1998 NFL draft, most of them worried about his past, not his hands.
