Brandon Marshall

And so, the next year I came, you know, I went to Miami with Maurice Jones Drew, you know, that's my dog, and I trained really hard, and I came back, and I was better the second year, but I got cut again from Jacksonville, so that's my third time being cut.

So,

I was on and off practice squad in Jacksonville.

You know what I mean?

I would be on the active roster, then they would cut me and I'd be on practice squad.

So I started off second string, but then I went down to third string.

Then after my third time being cut, I went to Denver and I was on practice squad for six weeks.

So practice squad is technically third string.

Because on the 53-man roster, you only have room for two strings, honestly, the first and second.

So I was third string.

And like I just said, you got an opportunity every day to show up and show out.

So I was showing up and showing out in practice every day.

every day I was in practice, like, you know, making a play, going hard, doing whatever I needed to do to be, obviously to improve myself, right?

And that's when the coaches started noticing me.

And, you know, one thing that my line, not my linebacker, I want to say it was my strength and conditioning coach, Luke Richardson,

And he told me that, you know, number 18, Peyton Manning, was the one that started talking about me at meetings.

No way.

Yeah, man, he started noticing me.

He started saying, hey, who's this number 54 kid?

Like, we can't stop him.