Every player that enters the NFL has a moment where they realize how much higher the competition level is. For Darnell Washington, he didn’t even make it out of training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers before he realized the difference between college and the NFL. That’s probably because he had T.J. Watt, one of the best players in the league, throwing him right into the fire.
“When it first hit, it was camp and we was doing the drill called “Grab Grass” and I was going against T.J. [Watt],” Washington said recently on The Arthur Moats Experience.