BOURBONNAIS — Elliott Fry’s two-word tattoo looks as through it’s been pounded into his skin by a typewriter. At the lower part of his forearm, two inches from the bend in his elbow, sits the mantra, as if emblazoned on him: “One shot.”
At first glance, the phrase makes perfect sense for a kicker: one attempt, one game at a time. One opportunity to make the Bears, to win a kicking competition that dominated the offseason.
The tattoo is more literal. It means pricking his finger to check his blood sugar, and then injecting insulin. Fry was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes — a disease in which the body fails to produce insulin — at age 7.