Green Bay — He crossed the room with eyes low and face vacant, a man dreading what he knew was coming, a man wounded by what had already passed. He dressed in silence.
Then, with a deep breath, with eyes shimmering as he battled tears, Andrew Quarless began to explain his absence from the first two days of training camp last week. He began to explain the death of a child.
"This past Wednesday, July 29, I lost my daughter on delivery," Quarless said. "Probably the saddest day of my life."
What followed was the description of an unfathomably difficult month for Quarless that ranged from public embarrassment and jail time to near-incomprehensible personal loss.