TAMPA — There’s no such thing as a pain-free season for any NFL player, but last year proved to be different for Bucs tight end Cameron Brate.
Menial off-field activities — getting up and sitting down, walking up steps — involved discomfort. In some ways, Brate said he felt his best while playing in games because he relied on adrenaline to overcome the pain.
"Just everyday life kinda sucked," Brate said.
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Brate spent the entire season last year playing with a torn labrum in his hip, an injury that occurred late in the 2017 season and went undisclosed outside of the Bucs’ facility until after the end of the season when the team announced he would have surgery on his hip.