“He hasn’t been this excited to play football since his Florida days”.
This quote comes courtesy of the father of Joe Haden. An accomplished cornerback for the national champion Florida Gators collegiately, Haden was a top-10 draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, but is not in his first season with the Pittsburgh Steelers following his release by the former after seven years.
While playing for a winning team certainly helps—he is overjoyed to be playing in the postseason for the first time in his career—it also has a lot to do with the fact that he is feeling a lot better, physically, than he has in a while.