Valentine Holmes is sitting in a hallway inside the Jets’ training center, going over his path to the NFL when the former Australian Rugby League star gets tripped up by which division he now is in.
“We came to the Eastern … what conference is this?” Holmes asks.
He is reminded it is the AFC East.
“The AFC East, right,” Holmes says.
Learning the league’s divisions is just one small step in Holmes’ assimilation into NFL life. The 23-year-old left his life as a star fullback/winger for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks to pursue his dream of making it in the NFL.