"The dark-blue SUV pulled into the fire lane and stopped. It was dark inside.

A swarm of photographers crowded the Ford near the sidewalk, and a figure inside pointed to the man in the left side of the backseat. Three months after the Chiefs made Glenn Dorsey their top draft pick, word leaked Saturday that the star defensive tackle at LSU had arrived.

Then the doors opened, and four Chiefs players got out.

"Hey," said the voice from the left side of the backseat. "You've got the wrong guy."

It was second-year defensive tackle Tank Tyler in that SUV. The wait for Dorsey wasn't over yet.

Tyler and his teammates laughed and walked inside for a quick bite and a nap before a defensive-line meeting. A new teammate was coming Saturday, and they wanted a good look at him, too.

Twenty minutes later, Dorsey finally arrived in River Falls. For the most important business meeting of his life, the fifth overall pick in the draft was dressed casually - black T-shirt, gray athletic shorts and gray sneakers with neon laces.

After the chaotic 48 hours that had just passed, perhaps Dorsey needed to go casual. He went from uncertainty on Thursday to hope on Friday, and an early flight Saturday to River Falls, where he signed a six-year contract worth as much as $51 million with about $23 million guaranteed. Then, a few hours after signing his deal, Dorsey was in pads at the Chiefs' fourth practice of training camp.

The previous two days were an experience he said he'll remember - but one he might not want to repeat.

"Hectic," he said, shaking his head while standing at a podium in the university center at Wisconsin-River Falls.

The 6-foot-1, 297-pound defensive tackle was at his parents' home in Gonzales, La., when his phone rang at 11 o'clock Friday night. It was Dorsey's agent, Joel Segal. They were close to a contract agreement, Segal told Dorsey. He should pack his things.

Dorsey hung up the phone and smiled at his mother, Sandra Dorsey. They hugged each other in the room with all of Dorsey's football memorabilia - pictures, ticket stubs and the white card with blue ink, the one the Chiefs submitted when they drafted Dorsey on April 26."