“Lot of growing pains coming in. Felt like I was building on something I had found early on before the injury,” he told reporters last week. “That kind of just took me out of my head. Being able to come back and get told you’re going to play defensive end, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh man.’ Trying to pick that up, learn all the things that D-ends have to do. Coming in, I just feel like it was, honestly, a testament to my hard work and the things I had to give up and bring in.”’