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49ers OT Colton McKivitz said during his second year in the NFL that he thought he made the team, but HC Kyle Shanahan told him that he was on the outside looking in.
“Kyle was like, ‘Hey you know why you’re here, right?” he recalled, via NBC Sports. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And then he says, ‘You didn’t make the team. But I thought he said, ‘You made the team.’ So I let out a big gasp and said, ‘Oh, thank God!” Then, he said, ‘No, you didn’t hear me right. You got cut.’ And I just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.”
McKivitz adapted to the mental aspect of the team’s training camp and said that he worked on making himself more physically prepared.
“I made myself take my shirt off during workouts,” McKivitz said. “It’s like, if you don’t like what you’re seeing, do something about it. Put it all out there. That’s just a lot of mental growth. I’ve learned to love myself.”
Cardinals OT Paris Johnson started from the bottom as a high school offensive lineman at former Bengals Pro Bowler Willie Anderson‘s camp in Atlanta, Georgia.
Anderson recently hosted Eagles RT Lane Johnson on his podcast, where they both spoke about things coming together in their second seasons. They both believe that Johnson is now in a similar spot, on the verge of becoming a star.
“I would’ve been the worst-ranked offensive lineman in the world that first day in Atlanta,” Johnson said, via the team website. “To continually work to get to this (level) … I’ve always had a standard at being great at what I do. What I strive for is to be able to match what I believe everybody wants to see when they say this person is an elite offensive lineman. I felt like I had always had success at football, and when I switched to O-line, there was a big hole with something new. I was taking in absolutely everything he was giving me.”
Rame RB Blake Corum commented on things he is going to do differently entering his second season in the league.
“Year 1, I was trying to be as perfect in everything that I did. I didn’t want to make any mistakes. And that slowed me down a bit in terms of my capabilities,” Corum said. “Now I’m just out there letting it loose. I’m playing at a lower weight, I feel faster, I feel more agile, I feel great. Between that and the game slowing down, that’s the biggest difference.”
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