OTAs and minicamp are invaluable for a rookie. Learn the ropes, how an NFL practice is conducted, getting your head in the playbook. All the foundational elements needed to produce on Sundays. But shorts and shells in Pittsburgh? A couple practices and then a few days off?
That’s not on the schedule for Latrobe. Benny Snell knows it. When the team gets together next, reporting at St. Vincent College July 25th, everything changes.
“I’m expecting it to be real physical,” he told the media via the team website. “Everyday is going to be a grind.