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As tough as the business of football is, when it becomes the family business - it gets even tougher.
“I ended up playing for three teams on the active roster and one week of practice squad with the Jets,” he said. “The hardest one was when I got released from the Jets. We thought that I had earned a spot. We had just signed a lease and I got released the next day.”
His wife, Katie, agreed.
“We had just gotten married. We had just signed the lease and I had just bought all new bedding, set up the whole house, went grocery shopping, bought food, and he gets the call. He comes back and he’s down in the dumps. I was like, ‘Alright, let’s go.’ We packed up and we drove home that night.”
A week later, the Patriots called and he was back on a roster.
That’s life in the NFL.
“My daughter, who’s now 10, I had her at my last training camp in New England and I got released at the end of camp,” he said. “She was a month old. Then I got signed to Cleveland and my wife and I were living in a hotel with a newborn for the first six months of her life. It was tough.”
But having a trusted partner makes it all a little easier.
“I couldn’t do it without her,” he said.
Katie isn’t just a wife and mother - she’s also a cheerleader for the entire family.