Kansas City Chiefs nose tackle Dontari Poe didn’t recognize the feeling during this past offseason.
Sure, he had pain before—he acknowledged that’s par for the course in the NFL—but this pain, he explained, was different.
It wouldn’t improve. In fact, it got worse and worse.
“The way I kind of dissect my body is I give it time to rest, time to heal,” he told reporters on Thursday. “If I have pains here and there, I just give it time. With this one, it just wasn't going away, so that's when I told the doctors to take a more serious look at it.