Indianapolis Colts linebacker Shaquille Leonard was again on the sphere for the primary time this week because the new league 12 months started all these months in the past.
The Maniac continues to be working his approach again into enjoying form and although he wouldn’t put a timetable on his eventual return, the All-Professional linebacker is trusting the method as he prepares to get again to full energy.
“It’s been a minute since I felt the best way I’m feeling now,” Leonard informed the media Thursday. “It’s a great feeling nevertheless it’s nonetheless a course of. I’m not saying that I’m one hundred pc able to go proper now, I’m making an attempt to determine all that good things out, however I’m feeling higher in order that’s the principle factor.”
Leonard hasn’t been on the sphere because the workforce’s season ended abruptly and not using a playoff look within the epic collapse towards the Jacksonville Jaguars.
It has been an extended course of for Leonard, who was undoubtedly pissed off with being away from the sphere all this time.
“It was simply irritating. I used to be desperate to get again on the market and play. Simply seeing your guys go on the market and carry out day by day and simply needed to be part of it. Soccer is my completely satisfied place, soccer is my protected haven, soccer is one thing that I like to do,” Leonard stated. “I like to compete. Simply being down for 3 and a half months, it sucks, nevertheless it made me take a look at soccer in a special viewpoint.”
In Gus Bradley’s protection, Leonard will probably be taking over a special position. Whereas he sometimes performed the WILL place, Leonard will probably be working because the MIKE in Bradley’s protection.
It’s a job that head coach Frank Reich believes the fifth-year linebacker will thrive in.
“No, I believe it’s a great transfer for him as a result of actually within the system and the best way the protection is performed out and the assignments work out I believe is similar to what he had final 12 months,” Reich stated Thursday. “It’s a special place as you’re saying Zak (Keefer), however actually it’s very related in duties to what he had final 12 months. So, I be ok with that transfer.”
Leonard has been extraordinarily productive since getting into the NFL in 2018 and though he’s taking over a barely totally different position in a brand new defensive scheme, the Maniac will proceed to be the center of the Colts protection.
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