Getting drafted is great; heck, just the phone call inviting a guy out to camp would be enough for most guys. It would mean that you still had a fighting chance to continue living the dream. However, for one guy, the phone call just was not good enough. Scott Sicko not only got the call from one team, but from multiple, and he decided to turn them all down.

“If I were to be drafted I would have had more confidence of a much longer career in the NFL,” Sicko said in an interview with the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union newspaper. “I have to look at my life and decide what will make me the happiest. And the thing that will make me the happiest now and in the long run is to pursue my education.”(Yahoo)

Read Travis Pulver’s whole blog here.