GREEN BAY, Wis. -- As he left the Green Bay Packers' locker room one afternoon earlier this week, Carl Bradford carried his tablet playbook in one hand and a box of tissues in the other. His sinus congestion was clearly getting the best of him.
"This change in the weather has my allergies acting up a bit," he said with a wheeze.
A month into training camp and two games into the preseason, that's about the only thing that has gone wrong for the previously forgotten inside linebacker, who has suddenly blossomed into a confident, playmaking beast after two years of being persona non grata on the Packers' defense.