Seattle, WA
Georgia’s Kenny McIntosh on deck amid injured Seattle backfield, ‘everybody’s fired up’
And yet, McIntosh had the longest wait of the 10 Georgia players selected in the 2023 NFL Draft.
“Seventh round, 237, that’s a number I’m always going to remember,” McIntosh said, watching 16 tailbacks get drafted ahead of him, moved to tears when the call finally came.
It would have been an even longer wait if Nagy, who had watched McIntosh closely throughout the season before evaluating his practice in Mobile, hadn’t made the call to Seattle general manager John Schneider.
“Kenny had a great week in Mobile (at the Senior Bowl) and was great with fans and teammates,” Nagy said. “When I did talk to John Schneider in Seattle, who’s a very good friend of mine, it was like talking friend to friend.
“I just said, ‘John, we had Kenny and he was our top-graded running back … the guy should be off the board by now, it doesn’t make any sense.”
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