Back in Season 22, Dawkins was selected in the 4th round, 37th overall in what was the largest draft class in the league's history. While there wasn't any teams which I was opposed to going to, the team's that I was most interested in were Chicago, Honolulu and Sarasota. I was pretty open with the scouts/general managers that reached out to me that I was interest in playing in Chicago. Interest in those three teams was more or less related to being part of build and perhaps be a core piece on the defensive side of the ball. Honolulu and Sarasota were expansion teams so that was an opportunity to be part of the foundation of a team while Chicago was heading into rebuild mode.
I wasn't opposed to playing in an established team, with Yellowknife being among the teams that I was interested in, but given how I was pretty open about my preferred destinations, I figured that I'd probably would be drafted later on in the Season 22 Draft. Some mock drafts had me going in the 7th round, which was fair and around where I thought I'd go since the class was packed with high earners and many who had either taken a role in the league or had expressed interest in doing so in the future. To my surprise, Dawkins got selected at the top of the 4th round by Honolulu which was several rounds earlier than expected. I was pretty happy to end up in Honolulu and conversations with Dwyer were probably the best I had during the draft process. It was also nice to be drafted to the same team as FurFurFurson (Buck Thornton) who created the S22 DB group which was the primary reason why I stayed active in the league early on.
I wasn't opposed to playing in an established team, with Yellowknife being among the teams that I was interested in, but given how I was pretty open about my preferred destinations, I figured that I'd probably would be drafted later on in the Season 22 Draft. Some mock drafts had me going in the 7th round, which was fair and around where I thought I'd go since the class was packed with high earners and many who had either taken a role in the league or had expressed interest in doing so in the future. To my surprise, Dawkins got selected at the top of the 4th round by Honolulu which was several rounds earlier than expected. I was pretty happy to end up in Honolulu and conversations with Dwyer were probably the best I had during the draft process. It was also nice to be drafted to the same team as FurFurFurson (Buck Thornton) who created the S22 DB group which was the primary reason why I stayed active in the league early on.
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