MUNCIE, Ind. — Since he started football in third grade, Joshua Posley's perception of the NFL has been pretty grand.
Big players, big stadiums. Another level, is how he always thought of it. Even as an All-Mid-American Conference defensive lineman at Ball State, the Cincinnati transfer never could quite picture himself as one of them. It didn't get any easier, either, when he went worked out for the Indianapolis Colts last month.
He saw Andrew Luck, the franchise quarterback from Stanford.
Then Robert Mathis, the defensive end who's long haunted quarterbacks around the league.
"You go from looking up to these guys, looking at them on TV, to now you're in the same room," Posley said.