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AFC Teams that almost drafted Tom Brady
#3 - Baltimore Ravens
Former Baltimore Ravens scout Daniel Jeremiah says quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh desperately wanted Tom Brady. Cavanaugh believed Tom Brady had the accuracy to take the Ravens to greater heights and made his case to the team's brain to trust somewhere around pick no. 75 that they had in the draft.
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Instead, the Baltimore Ravens went ahead with Chris Redman. If you're wondering how that panned out, Redman played six games in four years for the Ravens.
#4 - New York Jets
Jesse Kaye, the Midwest scout for the New York Jets, had just one name for Bill Parcells when asked who they should draft: Tom Brady. Tom Brady defeated Alabama 35-34 in the Orange Bowl in the final game of his college career and threw for 369 yards and four touchdowns in that game.
But the Jets had already selected Chad Pennington in the first round and Bill Parcells was uninterested. Though Chad Pennington would become the only quarterback to ever break the New England Patriots' hegemony in the Tom Brady era, once with the Miami Dolphins and once with the Jets, there is a good chance the New York Jets would have been more settled at the quarterback position, to put it very mildly, in the years to come.
#5 - San Diego Chargers
In the 2000 NFL Draft, the San Diego Chargers were loaded with three sixth-round picks. Within the organization, they had a huge believer in Tom Brady: coach Mike Riley. He had personally recruited Tom Brady for the USC program, where he was offensive coordinator, but had failed to convince them either. Riley tried his hardest not to miss out on him a second time now that he was in the NFL.
In the sixth round, with each of the picks, Riley tried to convince general manager Bobby Beathard to take Tom Brady. But Beathard never budged. Instead, in the sixth round, he went for JaJuan Seider. If you have never heard of Seider, it is because he never made it out of training camp.
