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For the past three seasons, Mark Tauscher has been living a dream, a dream that almost every child growing up in the state of Wisconsin has dreamed before: playing football for the Green Bay Packers.
Chosen late in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft, the former Wisconsin Badger had been passed over by just about every team in the league. And understandably so. In five seasons at Wisconsin, the former walk-on had been a starter only his senior year and had otherwise played little throughout his college career.
But maybe it was that evolution, from walk-on to a starting role, that should have been telling about the character of Mark Tauscher. Despite his late draft status, the 6-foot-4, 320-pound offensive tackle found the positive in the situation....
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Chosen late in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft, the former Wisconsin Badger had been passed over by just about every team in the league. And understandably so. In five seasons at Wisconsin, the former walk-on had been a starter only his senior year and had otherwise played little throughout his college career.
But maybe it was that evolution, from walk-on to a starting role, that should have been telling about the character of Mark Tauscher. Despite his late draft status, the 6-foot-4, 320-pound offensive tackle found the positive in the situation....
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