James Harrison is not participating in training camp, maybe not even for another two weeks. But he is not standing around, watching.
He is in the gym at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe in the early morning, doing those maniacal workouts he posts on social media. In the afternoon, while his teammates are practicing on one of the grass fields, he is on another, wearing a sweatsuit with long sleeves and pants and doing cone drills, sprints and grunting as though he is doing a 600-pound squat. Perspiration has darkened the gray color of his sweats.
“Practicing would be a lot easier than the stuff I’m doing,” Harrison said, nodding toward the practice field.