He's been catching and running the last few days, but this was the first day he came out in full pads and got in the mix to some degree. The only thing he didn't do was tackling (full contact), but he did everything else.
We're throwing a lot at them, from a mental standpoint, when we don't have the pads on. This weekend, we'll kind of back up and start over again.
There was no way I was going to have my first practice in pads and walk into that locker room without having anybody with mud on their pants,