1. I think the smartest thing I heard all training camp about fighting in practice came from George Iloka, the Bengals’ rising star at strong safety who infamously broke his hand in a practice fight that was featured on Hard Knocks in 2013. The fifth-round pick was in a three-way competition for the safety job in his second season with Shawn Williams and Taylor Mays when got into it with Jordan Campbell during a special-teams drill.
“I had a slight edge in the safety competition,” Iloka says. “Then I got into the fight, and I punched him with a closed fist in the helmet three times, and broke my hand on the third swing.