There is a Super Bowl ring in a house in The Woodlands, Texas, and by now it probably doesn't get looked at much. Rings like that have a way of ending up in a drawer once the parade's over — proof of something rather than a daily reminder of it. Ellis Wyms earned his the hard way, as the 183rd pick in the 2001 NFL Draft, a defensive lineman out of Mississippi State whom nobody was circling in red ink that weekend. He spent eight years in the league finding out he belonged there, six of them in Tampa Bay, and in January of 2003 he was on the field when the Buccaneers turned Oakland's afternoon…
A Ring at Home, a Stadium Waiting:Blue Chipper, RJ Wyms Finally Makes His Trip to TDECU
He's spent two years making recruiters say his name slowly. This weekend, the state's No. 5 prospect finally sees the campus chasing him hardest — the one he can reach without a boarding pass.

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