With the Miami Dolphins prepare to take Michigan ’s Jake Long with the No . 1 pick in this weekend ’s NFL draft — the squad has already signed the offensive rig to a five - year , $ 30 million plenty — meditation has turned to who St. Louis will select with the 2d selection . But the more intriguing dubiousness might be who the Rams will take with the last pick of this twelvemonth ’s draft , the player who since 1976 has been refer to as Mr. Irrelevant .
Paul Salata , a businessman , philanthropist , and former football game player at USC , will announce the last selection Sunday in New York City . While many others embody the underdog feeling , few celebrate it quite like Salata , the 2d of seven Logos of Yugoslav immigrant . In 1976 , he foundedIrrelevant Week , a celebration in Newport Beach , Calif. , of the terminal player picked in the NFL draft .
While the swig has few rounds today — and the final player picked is no longer as likely to be the first player gash in training inner circle — the custom stay on . issue throughout Irrelevant Week let in a regatta and sports feast , where sports celebrities and past honorees joint and offer advice to the latest penis of the dubious club .
1. THE INAUGURAL MEMBER
suitably , University of Dayton wingback Kelvin Kirk miss his flying to California for the first Irrelevant Week , forcing a rack - in to enter in the receive ceremonies and motorcade . Given how irrelevant the 487th cream of the Pittsburgh Steelers was , it ’s unlikely that anyone noticed . Kirk was thin out by the Steelers in breeding camp , but played seven years in the CFL .
2. THAT’S LOW
The Lowsman Trophy — a brilliant parody of the Heisman Trophy , which is awarded each year to college football game ’s most spectacular participant — is presented to Mr. Irrelevant each twelvemonth . The trophy , visualise above , artfully limn a player who is either fumbling the ball or , in the suit of the four quarterbacks who have been the last pick in the order of payment since 1976 , on the receiving end of a sadly off - target pass .
3. MR. SENATOR
4. EXTRA IRRELEVANT
Akron ’s Daron Alcorn became the first kicker taken with the final weft of the tipple when Tampa Bay made him the 224th natural selection in 1993 . Alcorn never caught on in the NFL , but he was a member of the Frankfurt Galaxy when they deliver the goods the irrelevant World Football League patronage in 1995 and later became a fixture in the Arena Football League . football game fans are still waiting with bated breath for the first punter to conjoin the clubhouse .
5. THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST
Former University of Alabama cornerback Ramzee Robinson , who had seven tackles in six game for the Detroit Lions last season , is the reigning Mr. Irrelevant . Naturally , Robinson fag out No . 1 with the Crimson Tide before being selected with the 255th overall pick . base on the picture grounds above , he seemed to bask his newfound fame .
6. THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST
In 1967 , before the Mr. Irrelevant label was adopted , the late Jimmy Walker was the last pick in the NFL draught by the New Orleans Saints despite having never played college football game at Providence . Walker , a basketball wizard for the Friars , was the No . 1 plectron in that year ’s NBA drawing . He went on to play nine year in the NBA , appearing in two All - starring games , and was the father of retired NBA fritter safeguard Jalen Rose .
7. THE GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
Several Mr. Irrelevants were drafted out of major college programs , including Matt Elliott ( Michigan ) , Everett Ross ( Ohio State ) and Norman Jefferson ( LSU ) . And then there ’s Ryan Hoag , Mr. Irrelevant 2003 , who caught 144 passes at tiny Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter , Minnesota . Among the more relevant graduates of the liberal graphics school day of less than 3,000 are Patsy O’Sherman , Centennial State - inventor of 3 M Scotchgard , and Annie Martell , the first married woman of singer John Denver .
8. THAT’S SUPER
New England Patriots linebacker Marty Moore , the 222nd pick in the 1994 draft out of Kentucky , became the first Mr. Irrelevant to play in a Super Bowl when he appear in the Patriots ' 35 - 21 deprivation to Green Bay in 1997 .
