The moment Jessie Bates III hears silence is the moment he’ll be worried. At least, that’s what he’s been told by a collection of his older teammates helping guide the second-round pick through his rookie training camp.
This isn’t the patient plod of OTAs or preparatory nature of minicamp. This time of year, life comes at you fast.
“Vets said you just can’t make the same mistakes,” Bates said. “Once you make the same mistakes you see coaches not start to worry about you too much, just say, he can’t get it right now and move on to the guy.