[Editor’s note: We published this in December 2022 but it’s, er, relevant for the 2023 NFL Draft!]
It’s not often that the last player picked in the NFL Draft makes a huge impact in the league.
They do get celebrated as “Mr. Irrelevant” during Irrelevant Week, which ex-NFL receiver Paul Salata came up with in the 1970s, which is wonderful.
But there have been some Mr. Irrelevants who have become … relevant … in the NFL (and one who is very relevant in another football league!).
And that’s what we’re here to do, especially now that it looks like Brock Purdy — Mr. Irrelevant 2022 out of Iowa State — could be the starting QB the rest of the season for the San Francisco 49ers.
So let’s run through some of those names: