Somehow, Alex Singleton was smiling.
He smiles often. He has been cut in the NFL “10 times,” as Denver defensive coordinator Vance Joseph recalled Thursday, and still smiles. Singleton has smiled through a career resuscitation in the Canadian Football League, and through a torn ACL that wiped out his 2024 season.
And last week, when Singleton broke some stunning personal news to his defensive coordinator, Joseph found himself more immediately upset than the guy who’d just told him he had testicular cancer.
I’m going to be all right, Joseph recalled Singleton telling him, while smiling.