Scott Peters decided he would play in the NFL when he was 14 years old. Between then and 2006, when Peters was a veteran offensive lineman for the Carolina Panthers, most of the conventional wisdom he’d been taught had to do with being big, fast and strong.
So, when an ankle injury landed him in a martial arts gym trying his hand at Brazilian jiu jitsu because it could be practiced on the ground and off his feet, Peters was surprised when much smaller men were kicking all 300-plus pounds of him from here to Sunday.