1. First Day in Pads: Although the players weren’t hitting each other hard in pads, Tuesday’s practice marked the first padded practice of the 2021 campaign. One example of something different you saw with the pads going on are running backs and tight ends getting to work on more realistic pass-blocking drills:
2. JOK Debuts, While Walker Sits: During yesterday’s practice, LB Anthony Walker suffered a knee injury, but the word is that he will miss “a week or more” of action. If there’s ever a silver lining to anything, today was the debut of rookie LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, who began camp on the reserve/COVID-19 list.