TAMPA — Jackie Hargreaves, so blessed to have her son Vernon drafted to play here in town with the Bucs, couldn't help but notice he wasn't coming home as much this offseason.
"At first, I was trying to figure out: Why isn't he coming around?" she said. "I finally asked him: 'What exactly are you doing?' You haven't been coming over."
The answer, it turns out, was actually one of the reasons he liked coming home so much in college at Florida and even last year: Mom's jambalaya.
"I changed my diet up a bit. I used to eat everything.