General manager Ted Thompson saw Michels, the team's first-round pick in 1996, get pressed into action and bomb. He saw 1997 first-round pick Ross Verba beat out Michels in a head-to-head training-camp battle but fail to be the long-term answer,Patriots Super Bowl 53 Jersey, too. And while Thompson was working in Seattle in 2000, when rookie second-round pick Chad Clifton took over six games into the season and manned the position for the next decade, Thompson was back in time for the final six years of Clifton's career.
Thompson admits he's not sure how Bakhtiari, the team's rookie fourth-round pick who's taking over at left tackle in the wake of Bryan Bulaga's knee injury, will fare. But he isn't panicking about the idea of a 21-year-old kid who could be entering his senior season at the University of Colorado taking over the job of protecting the blindside of quarterback Aaron Rodgers. |
