Sometimes having it easy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We tend to find that out often in professional sports. So many great athletes with great size or speed struggles to transition into a league like the NFL, where almost everybody has great size or speed. They were able to get by with their natural gifts at the expense of the craft they would need at the next level to compete with those who are, finally, his physical equal.
That’s what Pittsburgh Steelers rookie TE Darnell Washington is learning in his first NFL offseason. Asked what his biggest takeaway was from his training camp experience, he said, “What I learned most is probably just how much I have to rely on my fundamentals.