Before we saw him on their helmets and hands Thursday night, they saw him on a big screen.
Thanks to FaceTime, an iPad and a projector, Stedman Bailey reunited with his Rams teammates before their game against the Buccaneers.
Talk about one emotional pep talk.
"It was just awesome to see him," linebacker James Laurinaitis said after the Rams won 31-23. "That was the first time seeing him since everything happened."
"Everything" includes the two gunshot wounds to the head Bailey suffered in a drive-by shooting on Nov. 24 in Miami, the multiple hours of surgery that followed and the grueling recovery process the receiver has attacked ever since.