Draft pick Royce Whittington weighed in at 319 pounds in 1961. Domenic Gentile, basketball coach at West De Pere High School and a new training camp aide to trainer Bud Jorgensen, checked the scale. Vince Lombardi looks on from the doorway.
Training camp has always been serious business, but more so today with players having more at stake and NFL teams investing more in them than ever before.
Training camp has changed in other ways, too. Today, it’s all about growth and development, fine-tuning the plays in a dense playbook, and being smart about training, nutrition and injury prevention.