Iowa running back Akrum Wadley insists he didn't care about all the strange looks he received while cradling a football around campus last fall as if he was bracing for contact at the line of scrimmage. No matter the setting -- in the locker room, walking to class, even in class -- he was going to tuck the ball high and tight. All day. Every day.
"That's definitely 100 percent true," Wadley said. "I just had to be comfortable with it. It was to the point where I didn't have it in my hand.