The man in Calvin Pryor’s mirror looks exactly the same as he did a year ago when the hype was sky high.
So, he speaks with a familiar candor and confidence. Nothing has changed even though so much around the second-year Jets safety is different now.
Pryor’s forgettable rookie season prompted whispers that the Jets swung and missed on the Louisville Slugger (a nickname that he isn’t fond of, by the way). For all the expectations of bone-crunching hits and intimidation, Pryor wasn’t a difference maker due, in part, to circumstance.