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- Updated: May 10, 2016
12:30 PM ET
GREEN BAY, Wis. — There were no ESPN cameras there waiting to capture the moment, no extended family members hooting and hollering in the background when the call came in, no elaborate parties celebrating the occasion afterward.
No, when the Green Bay Packers took Utah State outside linebacker Kyler Fackrell in the third round of the NFL draft, it was just the three of them in their tiny off-campus apartment — Kyler, his wife, Elizabeth, and their 16-month-old daughter, Delaney.
And one poopy diaper.
Outside linebacker Kyler Fackrell is excited to start his NFL journey as a Packer, along with his wife, Elizabeth, and their 16-month-old daughter, Delaney. Photo courtesy of the Fackrells
“We sat there and watched everybody get drafted — all the videos, all the families. And when Kyler got drafted, it was very quiet and peaceful. And that’s exactly how he wanted it,” Liz recalled Monday afternoon from that same apartment in Logan, Utah. “After the phone call from the Packers, I’m getting all these texts from our friends congratulating us, and I’m all excited, and I look over to see what he’s doing — after just getting the biggest phone call of his life — and he’s changing Delaney’s dirty diaper.
“He wholeheartedly believes that that’s his job. We are his motivation. That’s an amazing thing. I mean, most guys his age aren’t changing dirty diapers. They don’t have that responsibility.”
Then again, Fackrell isn’t your typical draft pick. He’s easily the oldest player in a draft class full of young’uns. Fackrell will turn 25 in November, and Packers 20-year-old first-round pick Kenny Clark was the youngest player picked in the entire draft. Fackrell spent last weekend’s rookie orientation camp alternating between immersing himself in his iPad playbook and checking his Android phone for video snippets of what Liz and Delaney were up to without him. (“We don’t FaceTime because he refuses to get an iPhone,” Liz said in mock …
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