GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Perhaps it wasn't meant to be a hard-and-fast rule. Maybe Mike McCarthy intended it as more of a guideline.
Whatever it was, the fact that the Green Bay Packers head coach broke it a few seconds after announcing it, well, that said far more about third-year wide receiver Jared Abbrederis than even McCarthy's glowing praise did.
At the end of last year's offseason program, McCarthy had seen so many good things from Davante Adams that he declared the then-second year wide receiver the team's offseason "MVP." Then Adams was plagued by ankle and knee problems and struggled when thrust into the starting lineup by Jordy Nelson's season-ending knee injury in preseason.