Story courtesy of Browns War Room

The odds of making an NFL roster from an FCS school is remote – a DII school almost unheard of.  Antonio Pipkin attended Tiffin University - a DII school with an enrollment under 4,000 about 2 hours south of Cleveland.  

If he does make it to the NFL, he won't be the first from Tiffin.  Nate Washington and Chris Ivory both made the league as undrafted free agents after playing for the Dragons of Tiffin.  Washington, a Toledo Ohio native, had a long successful career.  Ivory, a bruising running back, is still playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

But a quarterback from a DII school?  The most important position in all of sports cannot slide through the collegiate recruiting cracks, right?  Kurt Warner certainly did at Northern Iowa.  Warner won a ring with the Rams and has a good shot at being inducted into the NFL Hall-of-Fame.  Harvard's Ryan Fitzpatrick was drafted in the 7th round in the 2005 NFL Draft and is still playing.  The latest examples include Delaware's Joe Flacco and North Dakota State's Carson Wentz.  Flacco has had a tremendous career while Wentz just finished his rookie season.  Each were drafted in the 1st round.   

Pipkin has gained some significant buzz of late in part due to the dearth of quarterbacks in the NFL.  Phil Savage, former NFL GM and current Executive Director of the Senior Bowl, leaves no stone unturned.  Thus Pipkin will get his chance under the tutelage of Cleveland Head Coach Hue Jackson at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, AL.  The week will consist of practices culminating with the game being played on Saturday, January 28th.

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