Malcolm Jenkins looked around for a moment on Tuesday during one of the meetings he and four other NFL players had with members of Congress on the subject of race relations in this country, and it struck him that this has been sort of a different year for him, and that he might be different now as well.
"Sitting on Capitol Hill and I'm thinking, 'Yeah, if you had asked me in high school if I would be here saying the kind of stuff I'm saying, the answer would be no.' But it's funny how life works," Jenkins, the Eagles starting safety, said after practice on Wednesday.