The San Francisco 49ers chose between Alex Smith and Aaron Rodgers with the first overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.
John Schneider was a personnel analyst with the Green Bay Packers at the time and they thought there was no chance of Rodgers being available with the 24th overall pick until they saw a mock draft suggest he could unexpectedly slide.
"I think it was the Thursday before the draft started, Ted and I were sitting there watching film and we had a TV on and Mike Mayock was going through a mock draft. And he had Aaron -- because it was like if you got past 12 or 14, right in there, all those teams in there had quarterbacks.
"So we looked at each other like, 'That could happen."
"We literally went and pulled all the [Rodgers] tape we possibly could and sat there and went through it again. Because sometimes when you're picking [later in the round] you don't spend as much time with those players that you expect to be gone.
"So we had to review everything, go back through his character. And once [San Francisco] took Alex and [Rodgers] started falling, that's when I was on the horn with Scot [McLoughlan] and Mike McCarthy because of those guys had spent so much time with both of them.
"After we picked him, everybody was really excited and [Packers President] Bob Harlan came up to me and said, 'This guy's going to be a good player, right John?'
"I was like, "Yeah, Bob! He's going to be a great player.'"
"And his first minicamp was something to behold, man. He was unbelievable in his first camp."