One thing was clear to Jonathan Garvin as soon as he stepped on the practice field in Green Bay for the first time: he had no time to waste. The Packers had a much more limited training camp this year than ever before, and as a seventh-round pick, he knew he couldn’t waste a moment.
“You have to learn as quick as you can,” he told reporters via web conference on Monday. And that’s what he set out to do, soaking up all the knowledge he could from all three of the Smiths he worked with on a daily basis; he studies under fellow linebackers Za’Darius and Preston on the field and under linebackers coach Mike in the classroom, saying it feels like the embodiment of the saying “it takes a village to raise a child.