My error, Bugs also mentioned this "yet-to-be player". Is this because he "hasn't played an NFL down?". I think that standard for notability is way too high. How many NFL draft picks were asked to go to that speech? Only one. They, presumably could have asked any number of players, current, former, or future. They chose Long. Notable. This convention, while not notable in and of itself is by a group of trainers that would be notable and worthy of a Wiki article. Notable. Long is notable himself. Long does not give many speech like (to use the above example Bush) so one of a few would be: Notable. This convention was covered by USA Today. Notable. USA Today, to my knowledge, has not covered this convenion regularly, if ever. I could be wrong on that but I never remember it. So, if Long's presence makes it in a nation sports page it is: notable. 

one editor deleting one line from an aricle and just saying it is non-notable does not make it so.72.0.36.36