“It was pretty hard to go through,” said Mayberry, who didn’t step onto the field until midway through his rookie season when he played on special teams. “And it was really humbling from a standpoint of you go to college and you have success and you just assume that success is going to continue and when it doesn’t ...”
After starting every game at left tackle in 1997, Mayberry was moved to left guard the following season. He initially wasn’t too comfortable with the switch of positions.
“I had never played guard. Everything happened a little faster inside, so it took a little while to get used to it,” Mayberry said.