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John DeShazier: Fully healthy Tim Hightower ready to make NFL re-entry

There are some physical changes that could make him close to unrecognizable, even to the Arizona fans who watched him play his first three NFL seasons with the Cardinals.

First, the dreadlocks are gone, snipped off earlier this year as the “new” man took on a new look. Second, there’s the surgical scar on his left knee – the one in which he tore the ACL in 2011 and later developed an infection, the combination of the two helping to keep him out of the NFL the last three seasons.

What should be recognized, though, is the running style.