It's been an unimaginably heavy year for Detroit Lions safety Tracy Walker.
In February, his cousin, Ahmaud Arbery, was shot and killed in what's being prosecuted as a racially motivated crime in Georgia. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, Walker and his wife Bella welcomed their first child into the world, a son, earlier this month. Add that to a global pandemic and football, well, it kind of feels secondary in importance.
"I feel like it was a year of learning for me — a lot of learning," Walker said. "I definitely got a lot wiser, and there's a lot of new things that I just, you know, wasn't used to, and I had to adjust.