Some have called Darron Lee cocky during his football career, although the Jets' first-round draft pick out of Ohio State hardly seems that while talking with reporters at this weekend's rookie minicamp. Confident? Yes. Smooth in front of the cameras? Unquestionably. Cocky? Not exactly.
But there is another name that stuck to him during his two playing seasons with the Buckeyes and that has accompanied him here
Manimal.
It's a nickname bestowed on special talents in the sports world, and Lee told us how he got his version of the name at OSU: from fellow first-round selection Taylor Decker, the tackle who went to the Lions.