Phillip Lindsay was in hell. Two days of the 2018 NFL draft had come and gone and the third — the day he expected to receive a phone call from an NFL team informing him he’d be their running back of the future — he sat. And he sat. And he waited. And he sat, fielding multiple phone calls from NFL teams, who checked in on him but weren’t willing to spend a pick on him.



The real twist of the knife came when Lindsay’s hometown NFL team expanded their draft haul to 10 picks with trades in the latter rounds and used their final selection, No. 226, on running back David Williams, an Arkansas transfer that few had heard of, not even Lindsay.



But when the draft neared its end, the offers poured in from teams trying to sign Lindsay as a college free agent. The Baltimore Ravens, in need of running back talent, offered an $8,000 signing bonus. The Denver Broncos — the team in his backyard who snubbed him with the selection of two running backs...