Chris Olave still basked in his post-NFL draft exhilaration in Las Vegas when his iPhone began to chime. Olave had been bombarded with an endless stream of notifications since the moment the New Orleans Saints traded up with Washington to draft the Ohio State star receiver at No. 11. But this alert was different. Olave looked down to see an incoming FaceTime from Michael Thomas — the two-time All-Pro wideout whom Olave has looked up to for years, and now, one of his teammates in the NFL. The motivation for Thomas’ call was two-fold, to congratulate his fellow Buckeye on being drafted to New Orleans and to invite the rookie out to California for workouts. “I couldn’t turn that down,” Olave said of his week-and-a-half stint with Thomas. The two didn’t overlap in Columbus. Thomas suited up for Ohio State from 2012-15 while Olave came to town in 2018. Because…
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