This much quickly becomes apparent during a conversation with Terrell Buckley: He doesn't believe his NFL career was anywhere near as rotten as you, the longtime Green Bay Packers fan, think.

He has the 50 career interceptions and 209 games over 14 seasons to prove it.

No, it didn't work out well with the team that picked him fifth overall in the 1992 draft. Nor did it last long. Three years later, he was down the road, and his selection led to a change in how the Packers evaluated cornerbacks, specifically short cornerbacks. Then-general manager Ron Wolf, who made Buckley his first-ever first-round pick with the Packers, established a Mendoza Line on height for the position. Never again would he pick a cornerback as short as the 5-foot-10 Buckley.

So it's with a large degree of coincidence that Buckley had a hand in the Packers' first-round pick 26 years after he became one of Wolf's biggest regrets.

For it was with Buckley's help that cornerback Jaire Alexander -- all 5-foot-10¼ of him -- put himself in position for the Packers to pick him at No. 18 overall in last month's draft. Buckley served as Alexander's position coach at the University of Louisville for two seasons.

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