The idea was more prevalent on Thursday morning. Around eight hours out from when his name would be called on stage, the receiver perused radio row, as he had for a couple of days at that point, signing autographs, taking pictures, and answering a hundred questions about his season and what’s next.<\/p>\n
“(It’s) a little bit weird just because I’m the same person that I’ve been,” he laughed. “Where I am today, it’s crazy to think that the goofy little kid that was running up and down the street just in his underwear is sitting here. I’m still that same goofy kid.”<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until running into his friend, and Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels, that the immediate next really started to sink in.<\/p>\n
“Excited to see you get that award tonight,” Daniels, last year’s rookie of the year, told McMillan.<\/p>\n
“Just trying to follow in your footsteps,” he responded.<\/p>\n
Then, finally, Thursday night arrived, along with a bout of nerves McMillan had not felt until the award was on the precipice.<\/p>\n
“I mean, I was a little nervous,” he laughed. “I was just a little jittery, but because you never know what can happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea was more prevalent on Thursday morning. Around eight hours out from when his name would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[79,211,7,81,6,704,250,2597,2596,1453],"class_list":{"0":"post-734746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","17":"tag-tetairoa-mcmillan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027000421353027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734746","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=734746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}