Missouri's Michael Sam — the SEC defensive player of the year and the first openly gay player in the NFL — was the 249th pick in the league's 2014 draft.
Now you'll never convince me there were 248 better college players... and better NFL prospects... in that draft. Two-hundred and forty-eight better than the SEC's defensive player of the year? There's just no way.
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