A little ingenuity goes a long way. And in Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski’s case, it gets you out of daily workouts.
The COVID-19 pandemic created a wrinkle in NFL offseason workouts, leaving players unable to attend team workouts ahead of training camps in July. Instead, they had to do virtual workouts.
Gronkowski was coming out of retirement to reunite with quarterback Tom Brady and join the Buccaneers. He was about 10 pounds lighter in April than during his Super Bowl championship days with the New England Patriots. And he said his body “100 percent needed a rest.