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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The first-round picks from Tom Brady's infamous 2000 NFL Draft

Emmett Knowlton   

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The first-round picks from Tom Brady's infamous 2000 NFL Draft
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Stop me if you've heard this one before: at the 2000 NFL Draft, 198 players were drafted into the NFL - including 6 quarterbacks - before the New England Patriots used their 6th round pick on a quarterback out of Michigan named Tom Brady.

You don't need to have strong opinions on Deflategate or the Ideal Gas Law to know this. By now the 2000 NFL Draft is firmly ingrained in sports mythology.

But the story of Tom Brady falling to the 6th round often centers around quarterbacks and overlooks the otherwise extremely talented 2000 draft class. After all, not every team needed a quarterback that year, and many of the players that teams picked turned out to be franchise legends.

Some players drafted in the first round of the 2000 draft went on to win Super Bowls and MVPs. Others have gone on to coach youth football, head their alma mater's business development departments, and even start their own eco-friendly kids app.

Here is every player selected in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft - the infamous Tom Brady Draft - and what's become of them.

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