This afternoon, for the first time in 353 days, Taylor Hart will get to play in an actual football game. As a fifth-round pick last season, Hart sat on the sideline for every game of the regular season as part of a deep defensive line that stayed healthy throughout all of 2014. And after a year of learning about life in the NFL and reshaping his body, Hart now gets a chance to see just how much he's developed since the final game of the preseason last summer.
"I think everyone is excited," Hart said this week.