Tyler Wilson could emerge as NFL draft-day surprise

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In every NFL draft there is a Tyler Wilson, a player who the draft experts say is not The Great New Thing. The list of negatives they spill come in a nitpicking torrent: Not fast enough, not big enough, not accurate enough, throws too hard, throws too soft. Then comes the draft day when the player who was supposed to go the second day – or the third – is taking a first-round phone call as his name is announced on national TV.

That's when everyone realizes that something had happened. A meeting. A workout. At some point, the NFL people decided that the man looked like a quarterback after all. They saw presence. They understood that this is what they were searching for all along. They didn't need The Great New Thing, they just needed someone to lead a team in the NFL.

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