TAMPA, Fla. -- On a sweltering Saturday morning one year to the day before Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Antoine Winfield Jr. inked his record-setting four-year, $84.1 million contract, he laid out how his next 12 months would go -- and nearly every facet of that premonition came true.
It was May 20, 2023, and his fiancée, Teesa Mpagi, who had been leading his drills and whom he calls "the best DBs coach in Tampa," grabbed her phone and started recording. These training sessions had become routine for Winfield ever since he was a little boy longing to follow in his father Antoine Winfield Sr.