It hasn’t been an easy year for Detroit Lions rookie cornerback Jeff Okudah. In fact, he admitted Thursday that the transition has been even more difficult than he imagined.
“I want to say yes,” Okudah said in a conference call. “But at the same time I think earlier on this summer I kind of just told myself, ‘Just trust the process. It’s going to be growing pains, it’s going to be good moments and it’ll be bad.’
“So I think that when I go back and just look at that reminder I sent myself in the summer I think that I knew what I was in store for.