Whenever Earnest Byner had a free moment or two during his two-year stint with the Jacksonville Jaguars, he’d pop by the office of the team’s general counsel to talk about life.
The conversations took on more of a big-picture and free-flowing nature as Byner and Sashi Brown grew closer from 2010 to 2011. They’d grab dinner at restaurants and meet at each other’s houses whenever the time permitted. It was “natural,” Byner said, and he learned more than he ever imagined about the Boston-born attorney who took on more and more responsibility as the years unfolded in his first NFL job.