Mike Sellers was a junior college dropout, sitting at home in Washington state and taking care of his sick mother, when a chance to play pro football for a living first beckoned. The Edmonton Eskimos made him the youngest player in Canadian Football League history at 19. Sellers was signed by the Washington Redskins in 1998, and started his first NFL game when he was 23.
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