For Packers’ Corey Linsley, listening to teammate — and Twin Cities native — Billy Turner 'hits home'

GREEN BAY — Corey Linsley is not a fan of social media.

The Green Bay Packers' veteran center keeps his Twitter account, which he signed up for in October 2013 while he was a senior at Ohio State, to keep up on current events and the news of the day. Beyond the occasional sharing of a post from The Onion that makes him laugh, Linsley’s 29,753 followers don’t get much engagement from him.

Monday afternoon was different. Linsley had emerged from a Zoom video conference call with his fellow Packers offensive linemen, having listened to two of his linemates share their life experiences as black men: Veteran right guard Billy Turner, a Minneapolis-area native who has been back in the Twin Cities since the Packers’ loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game on Jan.