… It’s cool the time those (college scouts) put in. Every draftable guy in college football you go through and you stack the board. I made it through pretty much up to the draft. And then everybody started finding loopholes and ways to get around it. So you really had to plan stuff out, so like if a guy got hurt on a Friday, we can’t bring anyone in because they haven’t tested. With COVID, they had to come in so many days early and test, test, test, test, test. You see how things work, like the process of bringing guys in for tryouts. But with COVID, you can’t really do any of that. (Jansen) and all my guys” - like, still do what I did previously. Like road games, once we get to the (hotel), I was thinking, “Oh, I’ll go eat dinner with J.J. I think one thing that made it very difficult was all the COVID stuff. You were a Panthers pro scout for not quite a year. That it just does what it’s supposed to do, and then when you get done playing take it off. You hope that you never have to recognize it. They’re doing the same run and they feel a lot more relief when they wear the collar versus when they don’t. You can’t have the same game experience or practice experience every week, versus those guys. For football, I could play a game and have four tackles, and not hit anybody. I think what’s cool is the more I’ve been around it, the more stories you hear about all these bobsledders are using it. And all the research that has been done on it, you just believe it works. I think you look at it in a sense of it never bothered me. I didn’t approach anything any differently. When I put it on, I didn’t play any differently. And now that it’s FDA-approved, it’s much easier to talk about. So it’s not like a ton of trainers and docs have really seen it before. When I was doing the study, you can’t really say anything about it. I don’t think people really know what to expect. It’s just trying to get people to see it and touch it and feel it, and ask questions on a more casual basis than a phone call or a Zoom call. And then out here, it’s just a good opportunity to get in front of people (for Q-Collar). (Jason) Witten was the other NFC (legends captain), then Reggie Wayne and Rod Woodson (for the AFC). Usually, I go to the Super Bowl every year. What have you been up to lately? I’ve seen you popping up all over. Some answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. But don’t miss the other highlights from our nearly 30-minute interview, in which Kuechly discussed his decision to leave the game early, his experience with concussions, the first time he met Cam Newton, and his thoughts on the Q-Collar, which received FDA approval last year and is now being used by military members, as well as lacrosse players and bobsledders. Readers can scroll down for Kuechly’s pro bench results. It was an impressive performance, albeit one the 30-year-old Kuechly was reluctant to include in the transcript of our Q&A. So, the perennial All-Pro linebacker found former Panthers strength coach Brett Nenaber, who’s now at Washington, and the two went to a nearby training facility in Indianapolis, where Kuechly put 225 pounds on the bench to see what he could do. But Kuechly being Kuechly, he couldn’t come to the combine and not do combine things.
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