PITTSBURGH -- James Washington's underwhelming rookie year was exhausting, so he coped the only way he knew how.
By getting back work on the family farm in Stamford, Texas, where Washington helped his dad change tractor tires or work on crops from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open-field sprints commenced in the late afternoon.
Returning to normalcy helped Washington -- who's fighting for a starting receiver job for the Pittsburgh Steelers alongside JuJu Smith-Schuster -- re-imagine his physique, coupling the hard work with portion-control eating of farm food.