Here is something you may not have known: the New England Patriots almost didn't draft Rob Gronkowski because his predraft visit did not exactly go all that well.

Apparently, Gronkowski fell asleep on the floor during his visit. Yes, seriously:

“Rob was kind of a shot in the dark,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said on NFL Network while introducing the tight ends on the NFL’s All-Time Team, per Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk. “He came up on his predraft visit, had a bad visit. We put him in a room, came back and he was asleep on the floor. Didn’t make a very good impression. … Like, oh, boy.”

Gonna be honest: that sounds exactly like something Gronk would do, and the fact that he wasn't incredibly productive at college didn't help his case all that much, either.

“He got off to a slow start there,” Belichick said. “Went to Arizona. Didn’t do much as a freshman. Had a decent year as a sophomore, caught 30 passes, and then missed his junior year with back surgery and then came out early for the draft. So there wasn’t much to go on. We traded up for him and just kind of bet that he would come through, and he certainly did big time.”

Of course, New England ended up selecting Gronkowski in the second round back in 2010, and he ultimately went on to become one of the best tight ends to ever play the game.

Throughout his nine-year NFL career, Gronkowski made five Pro Bowl appearances while notching First-Team All-Pro honors four times. He also was a part of a pair of Super Bowl titles (remember: he was injured during the Pats' Super Bowl win over the Atlanta Falcons in February 2017).