Victor Ochi is still waiting.
The former Stony Brook edge rusher is anxious for another taste of the NFL stage and eager to prove that he belongs on the Jets’ active roster. But while he continues to wait on the practice squad, he eagerly accepts feedback and tutelage anywhere he can get it. Even in the sauna.
“The defensive line coach, Pepper Johnson, he’s been helping me out. We sit and chop it up in the sauna all the time,” Ochi said with a laugh during an interview with Newsday. “You let him talk you to death, you’ll mess around and might faint in there, man.