During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, NFL teams were required to conduct the spring offseason virtually. Then training camp was abbreviated. That made it harder for every NFL player on a new team — particularly rookies — to adjust their new schemes and teammates.
It was a lesson that wasn’t lost on Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay Jr. After being selected in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft, Gay accumulated a checkered snap count history as he struggled to learn the team’s defense during his rookie season.
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“It just comes with doing it,” Gay told reporters on Wednesday, following the team’s final training camp practice at Missouri Western State University in St.