Julian Edelman reveals his first impressions of Tom Brady after being drafted by Patriots

Sometimes you have to state the obvious. So you can guess Julian Edelman‘s first reaction when he met Tom Brady.

This was back in 2009, a few weeks after the Patriots selected Edelman, who was then a Kent State quarterback, with the 232nd pick in the seventh round of the NFL Draft. Brady already owned three Super Bowl rings. But in the offseason of 2009, Brady still was rehabbing his surgically repaired knee when he met Edelman, the undersized QB soon-to-be wide receiver. They’d eventually become football bffs.

Edelman appeared on the New Heights podcast, hosted by our favorite Super Bowl brothers, Jason and Travis Kelce. The podcast was full of laughs and salty language. And this is how Julian Edelman described his first meeting with Tom Brady and his first reaction to the quarterback.

“Dude’s handsome, f-----g tall and handsome,” Edelman said. “I literally walked in through the locker room, I had my big a--, like, 20-inch binder of plays because we used to have playbooks. I walked in and almost dropped it. I’m like ‘Damn, he’s tall, he’s handsome.’

“Then I remember the first day of practice, I saw this dude throw a ball, I was like ‘yeah, he’s good’, just dropped it right over the corner, a deep one to (Randy) Moss. And when you got to see that connection as a young player, yeah, it was f-----g crazy.”