GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Forget everything you thought you knew about how players make it to the NFL. A pair of Green Bay Packers rookies have proved that.
First-round pick Lukas Van Ness did not start out as a Herculean pass-rusher, and second-round pick Luke Musgrave wasn’t always a smooth-striding tight end.
Before they wore shoulder pads, they donned ice skates and skis.
You don’t just have to imagine what a 6-foot-5 Van Ness looked like in the rink.
There’s video evidence:
And lest you think skiing didn’t come well before football for Musgrave, who came from a football family, then ask his mother -- a former member of the U.