NFL Draft day, April 2000. Phones buzzing, players wiping the cheerful tears from their eyes because some got the calls they were hoping for  — others were wiping them for different reasons. 

They were in the same position that a 21-year old Ahman Green was in 1998. Instead, he was watching from his agent Leigh Steinberg's office in California. Waiting. Steinberg, meanwhile, answering phone calls from the likes of Kansas City and Miami's front offices. After the "brutal" wait, as Green would recall, he finally landed in Seattle and spent his first pair of seasons with the Seahawks. Albeit Green didn't see as much work in Bob Bratkowski (1998) and Mike Sherman's (1999) offenses due to being the young buck behind seasoned tailback Ricky Watters, he averaged 5.3 yards-per-carry in those two years.

After a wildcard loss in January of 2000 in head coach Mike Holmgren's first year commandeering the team, Seattle wasn't sold on Green. Just three months later on that aforementioned sunny April afternoon, Green and his family were celebrating the fourth birthday of his daughter when his football future would change forever.

"Son, you're a Packer."

His father would proclaim those words to a shocked Green on the other end of the phone call. Once the swap of he and cornerback Fred Vinson to the Seahawks came to fruition, Green was packing his bags and preparing for his future with Brett Favre and a Packers team that was still in the rebuilding process a year after losing Holmgren, Reggie White, Robert Brooks and other key players through their peak years in the 1990s. Luckily for Green, he would be seeing some familiarity in the new offense he would soon set rushing records in. His offensive coordinator from the year prior, Sherman, would be Green's head coach for the next six seasons.

Once he left Seattle, soon-to-be Packers general manager Ted Thompson took over the organization of Green's former team. It wasn't until the tail-end of Green's first stint in Green Bay that the two would meet again for just two seasons, 2005 and 2006. 

Green would go on to have one of the most illustrious campaigns of any running back to ever represent the Packers' backfield. He surpassed 1,000 yards in every season with the Packers, with the exceptions of 2005 when they lost him to a torn thigh tendon and 2009, his second stint with the team at 32-years old. Green is currently the Packers' all-time leader in rushing yards, most 1,000-yard seasons and holds the individual record for most rushing yards in a season.

More than 16 years after the Packers made the move for Green, another Seattle running back fell on the team's radar in present day. After a red-eye flight, Chicago layover and still being able to practice for the first time with his new team, Christine Michael is the latest suitor in the Packers' backfield. 

In a running back carousel that the 2012 Packers team would gladly get onboard with, Michael is set to be the eighth player to take a carry out of the team's run packages this season. Eddie Lacy, James Starks, Don Jackson, Knile Davis, Aaron Ripkowski, Randall Cobb and Ty Montgomery have already been given their limelight in that role.

Despite having a 1,000-yard rusher in Dorsey Levens in 1999, the Packers made the move for Green likely because of the hint that, at age 30, Levens was beginning the downward trend. A fall from 1990s grace where he never really became the tailback savior the Packers desired when they drafted him at 149th overall in 1994. Not that he needed to. Between him and Edgar Bennett, the Packers' current offensive coordinator, the two-headed monster of a rushing attack was more than formidable. 

Now, far grimmer of circumstances plague the Packers' run game. After having to rotate Montgomery into the mix at tailback rather than his primary role as a wide receiver, a move needed to be made to solidify regularity. Even more so with Jackson suffering a knee injury in practice on Wednesday, the day Michael was told he'd be suiting up for a new coaching staff out east.

As the newest Seahawks running back-turned-Packer, Michael's mission is clear. Learn the playbook, understand blocking schemes, showcase his ability and give head coach Mike McCarthy a reason to utilize him for more than five offensive snaps per game, which is the same amount of carries Davis saw in his two-game run with the team.

Up to 2016, Michael had yet to see the endzone in any of his first 24 career games. It wasn't until week three of this season that Michael erupted for 106 yards and a pair of touchdowns, averaging 5.3 yards-per-touch. He would go on to score four more in the next six games, but now, with Thomas Rawls set to return to the Seahawks' rotation, his services were no longer needed. A similar ending to his brief career with the Cowboys.

It remains to be seen how he can mold into the Packers' offense — or whether he'll mold at all. Like Davis and Jhurell Pressley before him, who couldn't seem to last in Green Bay (even more so Pressley), Michael has sizeable shoes to fill. Shoes that Green once sported proudly.