Unlike previous years, this year didn’t have much pop, or at least we didn’t think it did.In the 6th round, the New England Patriots picked a quarterback who changed their history forever, Tom Brady.Tom Brady wasn’t flashy like Peyton Manning, but he was more like his hero Joe Montana.Brady grew up in the Bay Area, was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan, and pretty much modeled his game after his hero.Bill Belichick knew what kind of player Brady was before he drafted him.“He’s a good, tough, competitive, smart quarterback that is a good value and [we’ll see] how he does and what he’ll be able to do,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said after drafting Brady. “We’ll just put him out there with everybody else and let him compete and see what happens.The Patriots already had a great quarterback in Drew Bledsoe, but who knew that when Bledsoe got hurt, he’d never start for the Patriots again.Brady seized the opportunity and never looked back.
He won seven Super Bowls with the Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.The man is arguably the greatest ever to play the game. The lesson here is that many great teams were built not in the first or even the second round, but in later rounds.This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: The Draft Chronicles: 2000 Tom Brady, a goat, was born