PITTSBURGH -- James Washington has an exercise for developing strong receiving hands that even Antonio Brown doesn't try on social media: changing the tires on a 6E Series John Deere tractor.
Years of handling that clunky jack underneath multi-ton farm machinery always got Washington right for game days.
"It teaches you to hold leverage, put your shoulder into it and shove it," said Washington, the Pittsburgh Steelers' second-round pick. "Flip the tire up and lean it against the tractor, then you kind of want to wiggle it on there."
Before Washington learned to do it all on the field for Oklahoma State, he had to do it all in the fields of north Texas.