The culprit, a teenage Evan Engram admitted a decade ago to an Ole Miss coach, was bad pizza.
Maybe it wasn’t even bad pizza. These days, the two-time Pro Bowler’s greatest challenges are rehabbing his limbs and burning opposing linebackers. Those days, one of Engram’s greatest challenges was cheese. He couldn’t handle it without throwing up, childhood friend Justin Haney recalled.
“I just kind of assumed,” Haney cracked when told this story, “he would know better not to eat cheese before a tryout.”
It could’ve been legitimately bad pizza, eaten the night before. It could’ve been regular pizza, with a dose of unexpected cheese.