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Worst thing I've seen in a pileup: In a preseason game my rookie year, I was assigned to block Steve Tasker, the old special teams great, on a kickoff return, and I went and knocked him 5 yards in the air. I just crushed him. He never saw me coming. He got up, and he didn't care about where the ball was going. I went to block someone else and (Tasker) came and leveled me. And underneath that pile he grabbed where you don't want to be grabbed.
Most memorable slobberknocker: My favorite still is one on Barry Sanders. I believe it was in the playoffs in '97. It wasn't my best hit, but it's just the fact that no one hit Barry Sanders like that. Afterward, he told me that was the hardest he'd ...