NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during the NFL draft in 2007. ( Richard Schultz/NFLPhotoLibrary)
Despite going undrafted, Patrick Schiller, an outside linebacker from Northern Illinois University, was eventually signed to the Atlanta Falcons’ practice squad. His uncle, writer Charles Siebert, follows Schiller during his time in Atlanta, detailing the hardships his nephew faced in the NFL community.
Read Siebert’s profile in the New York Times Magazine here.
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