John Wetzel is far from invisible in the literal sense. He’s 6-foot-7 and 328 pounds, the type of hulking presence that has people wondering if he’s a professional athlete before he reveals his occupation.
“The first thing you notice about him,” outside linebacker Alex Okafor said, “is he’s a huge individual.”
But for much of his NFL tenure, Wetzel has been in the shadows. He was an undrafted free agent out of Boston College in 2013 and bounced around practice squads before making the Cardinals’ active roster this season.
He attained a level of prominence as a fill-in at guard against the 49ers and the Jets last month, but that pales in comparison to the spotlight he’s about to enter.