He was afraid he was going to be placed in some kind of concentration camp. We had to convince him he was a free man.

[Now he's 6-1, 200 and still fast and spent the summer working out in Fayetteville trying to be Mr. Consistency.] I was pretty much here the whole time, ... It went pretty good.

For the first time since I've been here, I was seeing a few double teams, ... That's going to help the offense, having two guys covering me instead of the defense saying, 'Don't worry about the tight end.' They've got to start game-planning more than what they had to do in the past as far as the tight-end position.

It's always frustrating, but I just looked at it as ... it actually helped me out as a player, ... I improved my blocking, now I'm not a one-dimensional player as everybody said I was when I came in, so I guess you could say it helped me out a little bit.

I waited for a while to get back in the flow of things, ... I had a lot of balls thrown my way in college, so to get back to that, I'm pretty excited about it.

[Six other people who refused to be taken from a bridge] felt this thing was an act of God and it was OK to just sit there and die, ... They were in God's hands.