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Rookie Roots: Story of Saints Draft Pick Adam Trautman
"He was the most athletic 6-foot-5, 215-pound kid that we had coached. So we thought he would be very successful."
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Rod and Lori Trautman were surprised, to put it mildly.
What seemed to be a routine dinner with their son, Adam, whom they knew to be a freshman quarterback at the University of Dayton, turned into an admission.
Unbeknownst to mom and dad, and before Adam received a snap, he told them he wouldn't be taking snaps after all. He'd changed positions.
To tight end.
"And I about choked," Lori says now, laughing.
Of course, it wasn't much of a laughing matter then, when – without parental consultation – the middle son of their three boys said that despite him grooming to be a quarterback, setting school records and earning Lake Michigan Conference Player of the Year as a senior at Elk Rapids (Mich.) High, he'd made an executive decision.
I see that this was posted on the home page but no thread was made about it. Anyone else think that the 11 years he played QB before college will help him in the NFL like it did in college? He could also be the emergency QB like Lance Moore was during his time here.
Anyway, just a cool little story about him.