I'm feeling quite okay. I've changed my training quite a bit over the last month or two, so I'm a bit apprehensive, but I should be fine.
"I think it's something you need to do," said trainer Michael McCarthy about the horse's trip. "Obviously in a five-horse field like he did [Saturday], if he can't do it against five, then he will have an awfully hard time doing it against 20 [in the Kentucky Derby]."
They enter as raw prospects with little or no experience in American football. Some have excelled previously in other sports, some have no experience whatsoever as professional athletes. But they all have one thing in common: the dream of making it in the NFL.