It’s not just that Patrick Robinson looks different and sounds different.
He is different.
That’s what experience (he’s 30 and an eight-year veteran), struggle and triumph will do to a man. And for Robinson, who was the New Orleans Saints’ first-round draft pick (No. 32 overall) in 2010, and spent his first five NFL seasons with the franchise, it’s a better different.
It’s a more confident different, the kind of different that helped make him a Super Bowl champion with Philadelphia and a signature free agent addition for New Orleans after three seasons away.
“When I left, I think I had to find myself as far as my mental strength,” said Robinson, who signed a four-year deal to return to rejoin the Saints.