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"When you're undrafted, you feel as if you're unwanted – nobody really believed in you to draft you," Randle reflected. "I always describe it as, your girlfriend breaking up with you. She breaks up with you the day of your prom – and you've gotta go to your prom by yourself. And you walk in there by yourself, and you find a date. That's kind of what it's like being undrafted and coming in the National Football League. It's a strange feeling."
Randle attended the 2016 NFL Draft in Chicago and described his feelings while taking in the weekend.
"I saw guys getting drafted, getting a phone call, and … someone asked me, 'Man, doesn't it feel so cool to remember how it was to be drafted?' And I'm like, 'No, I wasn't. I don't know what it feels like. I don't know what it was like to go to the combine.' It's an unusual feeling," Randle said.
Ask Randle and he'll tell you there's a special trait that sets apart those whose NFL journeys started after draft weekend.
"I think a lot of times for undrafted guys, it's a quality that makes you play harder because you feel as if nobody thought you were good enough to be in the NFL," Randle said. "So free agent guys, I think they carry a chip on their shoulders.
"I think that's something to be said about us," he added.