East Carolina wide receiver Isaiah Winstead didn’t receive a phone call during this year’s NFL draft, so he decided to attempt another route of appealing to NFL teams.
Winstead posted a highlight video to Twitter on the night of April 30, a day after the draft ended. The brief clip, which lasts just over a minute, received over 20,000 likes and 3,000 retweets. By Tuesday, Winstead’s video had been viewed millions of times.
Eventually, the video came to the attention of the 49ers, as the team reached out to Winstead and signed him by Wednesday as the final player on their 90-man roster.
