Steelers Antonio Brown: Anatomy of a fighter
by Perry Biggerstaff
07/28/15
stillcurtain.com
The NFL is full of athletic freaks of nature. There are players entering the league every season who are monsters compared to the hall of fame heroes of yester year. But to make it in the NFL, it takes more than a 4.3 forty yard dash, more than 30 reps on the bench-press, more than any combination of size, shape, strength, and speed.
Sure, there are those players who are physically able to do more than we mortal men who watch the game from our couches, but there are equally physical specimens that wash out of the NFL year in and year out. So, what is the determining factor that separates the successful from the “also ran’s”?
Heart.
....Enter Antonio Brown.
In a league that values height he measures in at only 5 feet 10 inches. Once so thin that he earned the moniker “Boney Tony”. A 6th round pick from little known Central Michigan, he was the second wide receiver picked by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2010 draft. Almost an afterthought for a team that envisioned third round pick Emmanuel Sanders as the receiver playing behind the great Hines Ward and speedster Mike Wallace.
Fast forward five years. Antonio Brown is now the best wide receiver in the game. That’s right. The best. Any argument to the contrary is just the simple inability to notice greatness when it stands before you.
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