If all that you know about Brandon Brooks is he’s a Pro-Bowl caliber guard and the Philadelphia Eagles got lucky when they snagged him from the Houston Texans, then you’re missing quite a bit of an amazing story. Sometimes, we believe that these NFL guys have it made because they’re rich and they play a game that many of us wish we could play.
What we, sometimes, forget or, often times, don’t know is many of these guys deal with a lot of the same issues as many of us. For Brooks, being one of the best interior linemen in all of football meant that he had to overcome his issues with anxiety.