And this, the undrafted rookie openly acknowledges, just might be the only chance he'll get.
Ruhwedel was an undrafted free agent, who just completed his college career at UMass Lowell.
So no first-round picks are likely to show, only potential, hidden, undrafted gems or late-round risks.
Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks, who caught fire this season, went undrafted out of Harvard.
Heart isn't assured in a first-rounder, and it may run thick in the DNA of an undrafted journeyman.
Scott, by contrast, entered the NFL in 2002 as an undrafted free agent linebacker out of unheralded Southern Illinois University.
That means Chris Harris, an undrafted player out of Kansas who's coming off a solid season, will move back inside.
As mentioned above, Alabama led all schools with eight players drafted, and another six were signed as undrafted free agents.
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The latest newcomer was undrafted rookie free-agent defenseman Chad Ruhwedel, who was signed to a two-year contract earlier in the day.
What were the odds that an undrafted receiver out of Paterson, N.
New York also announced the signings of 14 undrafted free agents who are participating in rookie camp: wide receivers Zach Rogers, Ryan Spadola, K.J.
After college he signed with the Denver Broncos in 2008 as an undrafted free agent, and made his way to New Orleans the same year.
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We considered both drafted players and undrafted free agents in the season following the championship, though the latter group was mostly negligible in terms of AV.
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Ryan likes what he has seen from undrafted free agent Rontez Miles out of California University of Pennsylvania, although he isn't too fond of his Pittsburgh Steelers tattoo.
Gannon added that it's an even tougher situation for Tebow now because more than 20 quarterbacks were either drafted or signed as undrafted free agents in the last few days.
Cruz was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2010 and has become one of the most popular athletes in the New York area with his salsa dances after touchdowns.
In the past six years, four of the top 12 performers in the three-cone drill were drafted by the Texans or signed by the team as an undrafted free agent.
Rob Ninkovich, a six-year veteran, has grown into a starting linebacker role and Kyle Arrington, who was undrafted and waived by the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is starting at cornerback.
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He was undrafted, has been released by two other teams, is rail skinny and before this week, he'd been considered a novelty who many assumed survived with only a Harvard-educated basketball I.
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An undrafted free agent out of Akron whom the Giants literally pulled off of a construction job in 2005, Blackburn had been with the team through last season, when he served as special-teams captain.
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The fever overtook not only New Yorkers but sports fans everywhere when the undrafted Harvard graduate came off the New York Knicks bench to help win games and a spot in the starting line-up.
The 6-foot-2, 197-pound Hixon entered the NFL with the Denver Broncos in 2006 with as an undrafted free agent out of Akron, but only played in four games and had no receptions in two seasons there.
In fact, due to a record number of underclassmen declaring for the NFL Draft (73 players) and leaving their NCAA student-athlete eligibility behind, there will also likely be a record number of underclassmen who go undrafted.
Lin is an underdog in the crisp Hollywood sense: the underappreciated athlete who was shunned by big-time college teams, undrafted by the pros, dumped after tours with Golden State and Houston, and briefly demoted by the Knicks.
Undrafted out of Harvard in 2010, Mr. Lin played only scattered minutes in his first National Basketball Association campaign last season with the Golden State Warriors, as well as the early part of this season with New York.
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