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Jordan Willis finds comfort, opportunity in second season with Cincinnati Bengals

The Bengals second and third round picks talk in their first press conference at Paul Brown Stadium. (Sam Greene/The Enquirer Sam Greene/The Enquirer

In any other situation, a group of teammates heading out to a go-kart track after a workout would blend into the standard background music of the NFL summer.

Not necessarily for Jordan Willis. The Bengals' 23-year-old defensive lineman acknowledges his introverted, all-business personality has a history of rubbing teammates the wrong way. It did early in his career at Kansas State.

At this time last year, he says he felt ramifications as a group of misunderstanding defensive line teammates made adjusting to NFL life in Cincinnati difficult.