"He'll make the roster," said Brad Blank, Kacyvenski's agent. "It's interesting, I read in his Boston Globe interview that he had always dreamed of attending Notre Dame and playing football, and I reminded him today that he went higher than any Notre Dame player."

Notre Dame quarterback Jarious Jackson, the first Fighting Irish player taken, went in the seventh round.

Kacyvenski is now the highest Harvard player drafted ever. Blank did some quick over-the-phone calculations, and he said that based on previous contracts, most fourth-rounders get a six-figure signing bonus.

Although football contracts are not guaranteed, a three-year deal would gross a million dollars, as long as he kept making the roster.

"The one thing I never thought of football is as money, although I guess it comes along with it," Kacyvenski said. "Obviously it's good for me and my family, and hopefully we won't have to worry about money. Money is not something big, it doesn't matter if we have it or if we don't. Growing up without it made me realize it's not that important. I don't like to use the words 'football' and 'money' in the same sentence, I love football because football's football."

Kacyvenski returns to school today to finish up his degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy. He might be the only NFL draft pick who spent last summer working in a research lab and who is pre-med.

"I'm looking to go to Seattle, and whatever they want me to do, I'll be happy to do," he said. "Special teams, back-up, starting, whatever. I'm ready to take whatever role and play my ass off. I can't wait to get going. But I have a paper due Wednesday."