Good news for Eli Apple: He wasn’t benched after all.
So said defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo on Thursday when asked about sitting the cornerback who had started the first three games of the season, played most of the fourth, and then did not get on the field until the fourth series of last week’s game against the Chargers.
“That was more of a compliment to Ross [Cockrell] and what he’s been doing,” Spagnuolo said. “Ross has been out here working. We see it, we noticed it, so we wanted to get guys in rotations and we rotated the guys right through.