Every NFL game is a convergence of hundreds of individual storylines. More than dozens of players and coaches, hundreds of support staff, and thousands of fans all arrive at one place at one time to watch or play in one game, which can make or break careers, seasons, and legacies.

Or they can just result in you being a small footnote for an odd moment.

Such was the case for linebacker Korey Toomer, whose own storyline landed him in Green Bay at an unusual time in the franchise’s long history.

The Seattle Seahawks took Toomer in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL Draft, but injuries kept him off the field during the peak of the Legion of Boom era. He never actually suited up for a game that counted as a member of the team that drafted him, first getting into a game with the Dallas Cowboys in 2014 — the one and only game he’d play with the Cowboys. A few days after his first appearance in Dallas, he was out of a job again, but landed with the St. Louis Rams, where he’d finish out the 2014 season.

He’d make stops with the Raiders, Chargers, and 49ers over the next few seasons, before the stars would align for an appearance in Green Bay in 2018.

This would prove to be a difficult year for the Packers, but when Toomer arrived there was no indication of what was to come. Short on linebackers due to injuries to starter Jake Ryan and 2018 draft pick Oren Burks, the Packers signed Toomer just prior to Week 1, and he played 19 snaps on special teams during the Packers’ exciting comeback win over the Bears.

That set the stage for Toomer’s biggest day in Green Bay, which just so happened to take place in one of the stranger games inPackers history.

The Packers’ 2017 season had been ruined when Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone during an early season trip to Minnesota. Escaping the pocket to the right, Rodgers had been tackled by Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr in such a way that Barr landed on top of Rodgers with his full weight, injuring the Packers’ quarterback. Barr’s tackle prompted a rule change in the offseason requiring players to avoid landing on the quarterback with their full bodyweight, resulting in an inconsistent and capriciously applied rule that would shape many games to come.

Including the Packers’ first game against the Vikings in 2018.

With Toomer in the lineup, the Packers had secured a 29-21 lead with just under two minutes to go in the fourth quarter. On the first play of what should have been the Vikings’ final drive, Jaire Alexander picked off a Kirk Cousins pass, apparently sealing the win for the Packers. But flags flew: Packers’ pass rusher Clay Matthews had walloped Cousins on his errant pass, and the officials determined that he’d landed with his full bodyweight on the Vikings’ quarterback. Alexander’s interception was nullified, the Vikings drove for a touchdown, and a two-point conversion tied the game.

And that’s where it would stay. The Packers and Vikings tied, a rule change spurred by an injury to a Packers player shaping another Packers/Vikings game a year later.

Toomer had played 23 snaps on special teams and seven on defense, collecting three total tackles — the only three he’d ever record in Green Bay. But his hard work went by the boards as the Packers and Vikings tied.

Toomer would never play more than 22 snaps in a single game the rest of the season, and he’d never play in the NFL again after 2018. For all intents and purposes, his NFL story ended that day at Lambeau Field, part of a confluence of players and circumstances coalescing into a conclusion that nobody saw coming.