Second Rounder

They watched the game from their home in South Carolina. No use embarrassing himself by showing up to the draft in person. They watched as the first round went by, and almost all of the second, before he finally got a call from a personnel department. He spoke with them for a couple of moments, visibly relieved, and then they watched the pick come through live.

"With the fifty-eighth pick in the draft, Atlanta selects Jamaal King. King is a really unheralded player, not even recruited, high school dropout who struggled with injuries both during the combine, and from a drive-by shooting shortly before he started college. A real risk," the commentator observed. It should be a happy day, but both Jamaal and Elizabeth seethed on the couch.