CHARLOTTE – Wide receivers are saddled with the stigma of being on the selfish side – fair or not, wrong or right.
Not this Wright.
"I was raised to not be a pouter," said Jarius Wright, the free agent wide receiver who signed a three-year contract with the Panthers on Tuesday. Wright, who spent his first six NFL seasons as a quietly productive target for the Vikings, credits his humble upbringing by hard-working parents – an Arkansas state trooper and a schoolteacher – for his undemanding but determined demeanor.
"I hung out with the older kids.