A bunch of people can talk about that one time they completely bombed a job interview, but I can guarantee you that you never did what Rob Gronkowski did.
The now-retired Patriots great was named to the NFL’s 100th anniversary all-time team and his former head coach Bill Belichick shared some memories of one of the greatest tight ends to ever play in the league.
It included a story of Gronk falling asleep on the floor during his pre-draft visit with the Patriots.
“Rob was kind of a shot in the dark,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said on NFL Network while introducing the tight ends on the NFL’s All-Time Team. “He came up on his predraft visit, had a bad visit. We put him in a room, came back and he was asleep on the floor. Didn’t make a very good impression. . . . Like, oh, boy.”
The Patriots traded up to draft Gronkowski 42nd overall in 2010.
“He got off to a slow start there,” Belichick said. “Went to Arizona. Didn’t do much as a freshman. Had a decent year as a sophomore, caught 30 passes, and then missed his junior year with back surgery and then came out early for the draft. So there wasn’t much to go on. We traded up for him and just kind of bet that he would come through, and he certainly did big time.”
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Gronk retired after the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2019. He finishes his career with 521 catches for 7,861 yards and 79 touchdowns.
