Clay Matthews details hilarious NFL Draft night story where mom thought Tom Brady-led Patriots took her son

In 2009, Clay Matthews wasn't successful New York City to perceive his sanction called unrecorded successful the NFL Draft. 

Instead, similar galore others earlier and aft him, helium spent clip astatine location with household and friends, each of whom were waiting to perceive the telephone ringing successful beforehand of them to spot wherever helium would beryllium heading. 

Matthews ended up going to the Green Bay Packers, and Thursday nighttime volition beryllium a full-circle infinitesimal arsenic helium spends clip successful the Lowe's Green Room with the 2025 NFL Draft imaginable first-round picks, who volition each beryllium waiting patiently and eagerly to spot wherever their NFL travel begins.

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Packers' Clay Matthews celebrates during crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Lambeau Field successful Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sept. 9, 2012. (John Biever/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

All of these prospects volition beryllium capable to archer their Draft Day communicative erstwhile it's each said and done, including those that volition beryllium astatine location oregon elsewhere surrounded by household and friends. 

"It’s nerve-wrecking to accidental the least," Matthews told Fox News Digital astir his Draft Day experience. "Unless you’re the feline who’s going No. 1, oregon top-two oregon three, you cognize your fiscal information and wherever you’re going to beryllium is. 

"For me, having gone 26th, not knowing wherever I was going to go, I thought I was going to extremity up successful Denver astatine 1 point, possibly Houston, and past New England was connected the clock. Green Bay, which had already drafted that twelvemonth with the ninth prime for B.J. Raji, I didn’t expect to extremity up successful Green Bay. They traded backmost up and picked me."

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Matthews and his household were ecstatic to spot him heading to Green Bay, but helium did uncover thing hilarious that occurred successful that infinitesimal to remember. 

His ma thought the New England Patriots drafted her son. 

As Matthews mentioned, the Patriots were a squad helium believed needed immoderate borderline unreserved help, and they owned the No. 26 pick. But Green Bay made a commercialized with the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady-led Patriots, and they went with different antiaircraft subordinate successful the archetypal round.

"Green Bay called and traded up successful the Draft, truthful everybody knows I’m going to Green Bay – it flashes up connected the screen," Matthews said. "But my mom, she someway missed it and thought I was going to New England. 

Packers extracurricular linebacker Clay Matthews leaves the tract aft the Detroit Lions game, Dec. 30, 2018, astatine Lambeau Field successful Green Bay. (Mark Hoffman/USA Today Network)

"So, for astir an hr oregon truthful afterwards – now, caput you, this is premier New England, Super Bowl, Tom Brady – she was fired up. About an hr aboriginal erstwhile she recovered retired I was going to Green Bay, she was like, ‘What?! We’re not going to New England?!’ I didn’t get each worked up, though. Two years later, we won the Super Bowl, I had astonishing occurrence during my 10 years [there]."

Matthews did person tremendous occurrence successful his decade-long tenure successful Green Bay, earning six Pro Bowl nods and becoming the 2010 Defensive Player of the Year aft racking up 13.5 sacks, 60 combined tackles, 2 forced fumbles, 1 interception and 18 tackles for loss. 

That was the year, Matthews’ sophomore season, wherever the Packers went connected to triumph Super Bowl XLV, beating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25.

Now retired, and a subordinate of the Packers Hall of Fame, Matthews continues to beryllium a staple successful Green Bay, including this week, erstwhile each the stops are being pulled retired for the latest NFL Draft class. 

Clay Matthews elaborate a comic NFL Draft nighttime communicative wherever his ma thought helium was taken by the Patriots – not the Packers. (IMAGN)

Along with NFL RedZone big Scott Hanson, Matthews volition beryllium touring astir the Lowe's Green Room, which was configured to lucifer a luxury cigar lounge, interacting with the apical prospects and waiting for commissioner Roger Goodell to telephone their names. 

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"It’s astonishing to beryllium successful present close now," Matthews said astir the Green Room. "As idiosyncratic who was drafted successful the archetypal round, but didn’t partake successful the festivities that travel on with being successful New York astatine the time, what Lowe’s has been capable to execute and bash successful present is genuinely remarkable. 

"To person the Draft successful Green Bay, it lone makes sense. I was conscionable retired connected signifier admiring what it’s going to beryllium similar for these young men time night. Hopefully everyone appreciates the hard enactment that’s gone on, that the metropolis has enactment on."

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