GREEN BAY — To understand just how difficult Vince Biegel’s rookie season was last year, you have to realize where it began.
In a wheelchair.
Not long after the Green Bay Packers took him at the top of the fourth round of the 2017 NFL draft — a dream-come-true moment for an in-state kid (Wisconsin Rapids) who grew up wearing Packers jerseys (Brett Favre’s No. 4 was his favorite) and starred at the University of Wisconsin — Biegel aggravated the Jones fracture he’d suffered during his senior year with the Badgers. It happened during the team’s post-draft rookie orientation camp, and not only did it require a second surgery to insert a screw into that right foot, the Packers’ medical staff recommended he have a screw put into his left foot to prevent a similar injury.