Joel Bitonio hasn’t known Alex Mack all that long. Before 2014, he’d heard about Mack, sure, but nothing beyond what the casual fan knows.
West coast guy. Played at Cal. Pro Bowl center. That was the scope of it for Bitonio, who similarly grew up on the West Coast and hummed under the radar as a high school and college prospect.
One season with Mack changed everything.
Bitonio’s front-seat view of Mack for five games last season provided him with the ultimate perspective. And it went well beyond the on-field time they spent together before Mack’s crushing, season-ending leg injury.