Green Bay Packers receiver Jalen Wayne, who didn’t start playing football until a senior in high school, has an elite mentor in former NFL star Reggie Wayne.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – For Green Bay Packers receiver Jalen Wayne, his athletic career should have been preordained.
“My dad came in the living room and was like, ‘That’s your uncle,’” Wayne said in the back corner of the Packers’ auxiliary locker room last week. “Well, cousin, but we call him my uncle. He told me that that day.”While in middle school, Wayne suffered a broken kneecap and gave up the sport.Two screws were inserted to repair the injury, and Wayne shifted his focus to basketball.
“I just had to pick it up on the fly and I fell in love with it, just having the ball in my hands a lot,” Wayne said. “And I was like, ‘Give me some advice on drills and stuff to do to at least get to where you are.’ He gave me a whole set of things – big messages of stuff that he used to do – and I would do it every day. After that, I got better really, really fast.”
Jalen Wayne was released by the Browns during their final roster cuts and was out of the NFL the rest of the year. “When I saw that, I was like, ‘All right, I know I’m going to make the team.’ It’s just about, ‘When am I leaving? When am I going to get up there?’ He’s like, ‘Just put in the time and you know how you do it.’The Packers signed him on July 19, just a few days before the start of training camp. They gave him jersey No. 2.
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