GREEN BAY — Cole Madison isn’t concerned about where the Green Bay Packers will want him to play. Guard, tackle — whatever. He’s got bigger things to worry about.
Like actually having a playbook to learn.
“Coming from Washington State,” Madison said during the post-draft rookie orientation camp, “we didn’t have a playbook.”
Wait, what?
That’s right, playing in Cougars coach Mike Leach’s famed “Air Raid” offense, the rookie fifth-round pick didn’t have to worry about learning a thick playbook in college. Rookies received abridged versions of the Packers’ playbook — in three-ring binders instead of the iPad playbooks they’ll have going forward — during the rookie camp, and even that limited playbook was more than what Madison had back in Pullman, Wash.