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Bears CB Tyrique Stevenson went viral last year for his interaction with a fan during the Hail Mary against the Commanders. Stevenson knows that it will forever be a part of his career, and he talked about how he got over a low point in his life and used it to get his confidence back on the field.
“It’s forever burned on my career,” Stevenson said, via Dan Wiederer of The Athletic.
“With that incident, the biggest thing I did was continually push it aside,” Stevenson says. “And rationalize it. Like, ‘Every football player has a bad play.’ Instead of looking at it head-on and accepting that that was me in that moment and that I needed to fix some things about myself.”
“Why was I letting it linger? Was that affecting my personality? Was it affecting me on the field? Was it affecting the things I was doing on a daily basis?”
“In reality, it was. I was playing football not to make plays but to not make mistakes. I was being self-conscious instead of playing with the confidence that I do this for a living and I’m good at it. I was walking on eggshells when I didn’t need to be.”
Packers WR Christian Watson returned to practice for the first time after suffering a torn ACL near the end of last season. Watson says he’ll be ready to suit up on game days when he feels 100 percent with no mental or physical setbacks, instead of setting a concrete date.
“Honestly, my goal for coming back to play is whenever I feel like I’ve put in the work enough and I’m confident after getting the team reps, getting the live reps and there are no setbacks,” Watson said, via ESPN’s Rob Demovsky.
“I want to get back and have felt 100 percent and continue to feel 100 percent. That’s my main thing. I’m not setting too much of a target date, this week or anything. It’s really just as soon as I feel like I’m 100 percent and ready to go is when I’ll play.”
