GREEN BAY — The projectile exited John Williams left nostril at a high rate of speed, narrowly missed one of the local TV stations’ microphones and disappeared. But everyone had seen it, including the Green Bay Packers rookie offensive lineman himself.
A sheepish grin quickly creased the seventh-round pick’s face. He was in the midst of making such a great first impression, too.
The former Cincinnati left tackle had navigated a series of questions about his college major — aerospace engineering, making him quite literally a rocket scientist — without a whiff of I’m-smarter-than-you-are condescension. He’d already given off a fun, everyman quality even before his unfortunate booger episode.