Few life-changing moments such as being chosen in the first round of an NFL Draft are triggered by call waiting. But it happens. Six-foot-4, 314-pound proof of that is Wayne Gandy when he was picked by the Rams out of Auburn in 1994.

"I was actually on the phone with the Dolphins, they had the 16th pick," said Gandy, a consensus All-American offensive tackle. "They were talking about me catching a helicopter down to Miami, because I'm from Haines City, Florida, which is a little south of Orlando. So it was going to be a quick little draft. I was going to go to Miami.

"And then my phone beeped and it was the Rams with the 15th pick. Me and my agent had spoken and we didn't see the Rams taking a tackle, so I hadn't had them on my radar at all. But I didn't have this idea of where I wanted

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