As it turns out, one player from the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots got his start in farm fields before making it big on the football field.
Representing ag from the Seattle Seahawks is Grey Zabel, an offensive lineman.
The 1st round pick of the 2025 NFL draft grew up on his family’s cash crop operation in Pierre, S.D. One year earlier, he rented 250 acres to start his own cash crop farm, Northland Farms.
Will Campbell, an offensive lineman for the New England Patriots from Monroe, La., grew up on a farm too.
The fourth overall pick of the 2025 NFL draft spent his youth on his family’s farm with his father, Brian, a corn, soybean and cotton farmer. Brian is also a seed salesman, and a former collegiate offensive lineman.
As a kid Campbell would help his dad install irrigation pipes or trim weeds around the farm.