“Oh man, it’s always been something I’ve done, and I don’t know why, but I felt like I could take a little breath,” Legette said. “And when you’re playing in this game, you can never do that. It’s always a way to get better, and that’s one of the ways to help with catching. For sure, for sure. In my mind, I’m thinking about ways, things I can do. What can I do to have less drops this coming season in Year 2?
“The whole mindset has changed, man. Trying to do anything I got to. I’m sacrificing a lot of things that I used to do outside of the building to put my work inside the building.”
Throughout the offseason, he’d grab a couple of guys from the equipment staff — usually Grayson Sandlin and Mack Whitehurst — who would feed him passes on the indoor turf field around the corner from the locker room.
There, in a lonely corridor, he’d catch balls, over and over and away from cameras or any attention. It was similar to the work he put in last year after the drop in Philadelphia that brought the kind of attention he didn’t want. He sought out Hubbard and Tremble after practice the following Wednesday and has been a regular participant in their group ever since.