TAMPA, Fla. -- Former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper didn’t think it would take this long to get picked up by an NFL team. He was cut in February 2016, and this weekend’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie minicamp is his first football action since.
“I was in Philly for six years. I got cut,” Cooper said. “I was expecting to get picked up somewhere and I didn’t. It was hard to keep training and stay ready without seeing that light at the end of the tunnel. I just kept grinding and grinding.