Wright and Childs were both selected in the fourth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon by the Minnesota Vikings. Now, it’s unique enough that the college teammates were both selected by the same team to play in the NFL, if both make the roster by opening week, but it actually goes back a lot further than just being teammates in Fayetteville.
You see Wright and Childs have pretty much been teammates for their entire lives. Both are from the small Arkansas town of Warren, which is a town of about 6,000 people. Both were teammates at Warren High before heading north to college and before that the two were teammates at the junior high level, the middle school level and the elementary school level. It doesn’t seem that there is anything in this world that can separate Wright and Childs.
Now I don’t know for sure, and have no clue how one would even really go about looking such a thing up, but I’m willing to bet that something like this, especially from such a small hometown has ever happened in the NFL. It’s a unique enough and special enough story to have me rooting for both Wright and Childs to make the Vikings roster this season.
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