Jarrad Davis admitted something Friday that few in football ever do. He’s human. And he heard the outside criticism — and all the pressure that came with being the Detroit Lions’ first-round pick in 2017.
“As a human being, we say we want to ignore the noise, we say we want to do all these things,” the linebacker said after he signed a one-year deal to return to the team. “But it’s really hard. And as a football player, it’s not easy to go out and work hard every single day of the week, week in and week out, and come home without the results that you want.