GREEN BAY, Wis. -- To understand why Micah Hyde is the football player he is, to grasp why he delights in his role as the Green Bay Packers’ plug-and-play, do-anything jack-of-all-trades, to appreciate why he doesn’t care about how his lack of a clear-cut position impacts his impending free agency, you have to go all the way back to the fall of 2006, to the high school fields of northwest Ohio.
“He literally never left the field,” says Tom Grine, Hyde’s coach at Fostoria High School. Then, just in case he wasn’t clear, Grine repeats himself.