No, Bowers didn’t go to the dorms. He wasn’t eating in the dining commons. He lived with a friend about 10 minutes from campus and made the daily commute and got the requisite double-takes from his classmates.<\/p>\n
Just like when he was previously on campus as the Bulldogs’ star tight end.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, they’d say, ‘What’s up?’ just like before,” Bowers said. “That was cool. Then, it was just like, normal.”<\/p>\n
Nothing about what Bowers accomplished this spring, though, was normal.<\/p>\n
Not with Bowers cramming for five finals, along with learning a new offense authored by Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly via countless Zooms.<\/p>\n
“He could have just up and left [Georgia],” DeAnna said. “But he didn’t. The Raiders gave him amazing support and I appreciate them standing behind Brock. That last month of school, with finals and presentations and learning that new offense, it was killing him.”<\/p>\n
“He was like, ‘Mom!’ I said, ‘There’s only three weeks to go.’<\/p>\n
Yes, the parchment is a nice complement to the two national titles Bowers won at Georgia, the No. 13 overall draft pick status he enjoyed last year and his All-Pro selection as a rookie.<\/p>\n
But it’s all part of his personal journey. One that began on the football fields of Napa, continued and concluded in the classrooms of Georgia and is ever-evolving with the Raiders.<\/p>\n
So, what is more stressful to study for and learn – an NFL playbook or college finals with graduation on the horizon?<\/p>\n
Bowers laughed again, then he cleared his throat.<\/p>\n
“A playbook, you learn it and you know it, to be successful for your team,” he said. “School is for yourself. It’s a different kind of pressure. You’re competing against yourself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, Bowers didn’t go to the dorms. He wasn’t eating in the dining commons. He lived with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[797,7,268,269,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-72482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-brock-bowers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-centerpiece","11":"tag-home-latest-stories","12":"tag-las-vegas","13":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","14":"tag-lasvegas","15":"tag-lasvegasraiders","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114556415903495596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}