FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – Calvin Ridley has been one of the best players on the field his entire career, from high school to college to his last three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons. Yet through all that, there was something he had never been until Wednesday afternoon.
A captain.
“Yeah, it’s pretty big. First time in my life I’m a captain on a team,” Ridley said Wednesday during a call promoting Pepsi's Made for Football Watching campaign. “It shows that I’m doing something right. My teammates respect me enough to vote me as a leader on the team and yeah, I’m feeling pretty good about it.