For Ruvell Martin, a strong, burgeoning career in real estate is on hold. For Marcedes Lewis, football has never stopped.
These two men are separated by a little less than two years in age and they both took their first NFL snaps in 2006. It is an amusing coincidence, but one that belies the very different roads each took to be with the Green Bay Packers this year.
Martin, who first entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2004 after a college career at Saginaw Valley State, bounced around for two years before finally cracking the Packers’ 53-man roster in 2006.