Nothing says NFL offseason quite like the concurrence of news cycles we’ve experienced over the past week; rookies signing contracts, anguish over a few of the game’s stars choosing to forego OTAs, and of course, the powers that be in the NFL uniting to pulverize whatever tiny fragments of public integrity they have left.
So let’s take a break from it — because there is a countless number of wonderful, positive stories happening around the NFL — specifically with its players. These stories are everywhere, if you know where to look; from Patriots.com reporter Angelique Fiske’s piece last Friday on Patriots players (James White, Kyle Van Noy, Jordan Matthews, Cordarrelle Patterson, Derek Rivers and Harvey Langi) dishing out smoothies at Boston Children’s Hospital, to the reports of J.