People just have to realize the human side of everything.” “You’re not always going to be at your best every game. “We’re trying to put our best foot forward on the field, but people are going to mess up,” Vikings cornerback Akayleb Evans said. They attend a required symposium and receive skills training in areas such as decision-making and stress management. Rookies across the NFL each summer aren’t just trying to memorize their playbooks. Mack and his colleagues with other clubs regularly counsel players through mental health challenges that can quickly arise in this tension between the fame, fortune and privilege of playing a game for a living and the scrutiny surrounding such short careers.

“Once I cleared through that first year I was like, ‘I’m done with it. “I was like, ‘Holy cow, this is a roller coaster of, ’You’re the best and you’re the worst,’” Lock said. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Drew Lock learned this as a freshman at Missouri, when he eagerly soaked up the praise after a win in his first start and had his eyes opened to the opposite after a lopsided loss the following week. That’s a good example of how you’ve got to be able to ride the wave of this whole deal and keep even-keeled.” “It was an all-out brawl, how I got made out to be as a guy. That went viral,” Vikings left guard Dalton Risner, referring to a sideline confrontation during his time with the Denver Broncos. But I pushed my backup quarterback last year. I’d like to think of myself as a pretty good dude. “I was a Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.

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