Booker began attending Saban’s football camps in 2015, as noted during ABC’s NFL draft broadcast on Thursday. After the former Crimson Tide guard was selected No. 12 overall by the Dallas Cowboys, ABC showed a photo montage of Saban and Booker together through the years.

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Maybe it was fate that Booker was coming to the Cowboys when during his visit to The Star as one of the 30 national visits, coach Brian Schottenheimer played the one song that seemed perfect: “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston.