This spring, while the Green Bay Packers’ front office was hard at work scouting rookies for the 2017 NFL Draft and signing free agent players(!!!), a handful of the men on the team who had just wrapped up their rookie years got to work. Mike McCarthy’s go-to cliche about the “second-year jump” will be put to the test this year, as it always is, by last year’s draft class. However, the players in line for that jump in 2017 needed to develop more than just their mental processing of the game of football.
One in particular bulked up significantly, putting significant weight onto his relatively slight frame in the hopes of holding up better over a full NFL season.