Over his first two seasons with the T-Bolts in 2014-15, Fisher went 10-17 with a 5.14 ERA.

Last season, though, the Norman, Oklahoma native was leading the league in wins at 9-4 with a 3.30 ERA when he faced a dilemma in early August.

A graduate assistant position in the athletic department at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, opened up and Fisher was offered the position, which allowed him to work and take graduate school classes tuition-free.

"It was tough," Fisher said. "I was grateful for the University of Oklahoma giving me that opportunity. It was a blessing, but it was tough to leave these guys. I was at a crossroads and I didn't really know what I wanted, but now I'm just glad to be back competing with these guys."

Fisher got off to a slow start this season. Entering July, he was 2-4 with a 4.91 ERA.

"It was a challenge coming back after missing the end of last year," he said. "I came in here and my year didn't start off the way I wanted, but I felt like I was throwing pretty well.

"Now, I feel like I'm getting back to where I was last year. I'm just going to try to keep riding this wave."

That doesn’t mean that training camp and the preseason will be without intrigue, of course.

The quarterback situation still has to work itself out, and we all can look forward to the daily throw-by-throw breakdown of Kessler, Kizer and Osweiler on Twitter.

While they will both likely make the final roster, the competition at right tackle between Shon Coleman and Cameron Erving will be a big one, if nothing else than for the continued good health of whoever wins the quarterback competition.

On defense, the team still needs to find someone to line up next to Shelton in a four-man front, and how the various pieces fit in the secondary remains very much to be determined.

The biggest question, which won’t be answered until September, is if executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown and Jackson are committed to building the best 53-man roster they can, or if they want to make the best 53-man roster with the players they have drafted.

"We are counting on guys to continue to grow, and I challenged them today in our meeting about how can they get better."

Despite that, Horton believes Nassib can still be a double-digit sacker in the NFL.

"For Carl, yes because he's so smart,'' said Horton. "He really is. When you watch him, he studies and he understands. His brother has played in the league so he gets what the NFL is about. Then it's just having your body mature and grow up and get bigger and stronger to go with it so you can compete for 16 weeks against the best of the best."

As for Ogbah, who had 1.5 sacks against the Bengals, Horton has urged him "to play faster, and he's going to get better with experience.

"We need just more guys around him to help him. Is he growing and maturing and getting better? Yes. Is he going to be better next year than he was this year? He better be, and I think he will be."

"Honolulu, HI (July 10, 2017) - The Polynesian Football Hall of Fame announced today that NFL players Michael Bennett, Marcus Mariota, JuJu Smith-Schuster and Ronnie Stanley have been named Ambassadors for the 2018 Polynesian Bowl.

'In less than a year, the Polynesian Bowl has become one of the nation's premier high school football all-star games,' said Tennessee Titans QB Marcus Mariota. 'I am honored to be part of this special celebration of culture and football.'

'I look forward to welcoming the best high school football players to Hawai'i,' said Seattle Seahawks DE Michael Bennett. 'There is no place more beautiful than the Aloha State.'

The 2018 Polynesian Bowl Honorary Team Captains will be Cleveland Browns NT Danny Shelton and San Francisco 49ers DL DeForest Buckner. Past Polynesian College Player of the Year honorees Marcus Mariota and Ronnie Stanley served in those roles for the inaugural game.

The Polynesian Bowl is a premier high school football all-star game featuring 100 of the world's elite football players. The game will be played Saturday, January 20, 2018 at Aloha Stadium on O'ahu, Hawai'i during the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend. It will be broadcast live on ESPN3. Legends Dick Vermeil and Terry Donahue will serve as Head Coaches. A majority of players will be of Polynesian ancestry."

After two years at outside linebacker, Orchard is back in his comfort zone as a 4-3 defensive end. It’s the spot he occupied throughout a college career that saw him rack up 25 sacks, including a nation-leading 18.5 as a senior.

With the hiring of defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, Orchard’s move back to defensive end -- much like Cam Johnson’s -- seemed inevitable. Orchard just didn’t leave anything up to chance. As soon as he could, Orchard acquired Williams’ phone number, dialed him up and expressed his desire to play defensive end.

“I told him I was the D-end for him and this is the perfect system. He agreed with me,” Orchard said. “I've just got to come out here and prove to these guys this is my home and that's where I should be.”

Orchard showed off that comfort during the Browns’ offseason workout program. During OTAs and minicamp, he often lined up behind Emmanuel Ogbah with the second group. On a number of occasions, Orchard looked like the guy who piled up sack after sack at Utah, peeling around the edge to apply immediate pressure on the quarterback.

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Smith, 22, is working diligently to return from the knee injury when he tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee, and had damage to the peroneal nerve.

Smith has been wearing a brace on his ankle and foot and is expected to continue doing so in camp. But he’ll be monitored early on.

The Cowboys will likely have Smith working every other day as they take a cautious approach in him getting acclimated again.

“We’re going to look after his best interests,” executive vice president Stephen Jones said. “He’s ready. He’s dying to go every play, right now. He also knows that we want to do what’s best for Jaylon. We all know being in shape and being ready is a lot different than playing football.

“I think he could do it, but we’re going to take the safe route every step of the way. I think everybody’s going to be pleasantly surprised with how well he does.”

Smith won’t be the only player limited early on in camp. Others include offensive lineman Joe Looney; defensive ends Benson Mayowa, DeMarcus Lawrence and Charles Tapper; and tight ends Geoff Swaim and James Hanna.

The second-oldest man in the NFL watches with a gleam in his eye as the 19 million-pound mass of metal, concrete, soil and grass moves at a tortoise pace into position. It is Saturday morning and it’s Phil Dawson’s first time watching the daily field installation at University of Phoenix Stadium. For kickers like Dawson, it’s a veritable Field of Dreams; Arizona’s is the only playing surface in the NFL without a drainage crown, a slight slope descending from an imaginary line down the center of the field from end zone to end zone. “Oh yes, it makes a difference,” says Dawson, munching on an energy bar before the first day of practice with the first team to assemble for training camp in 2017. “Like in golf, when you have a downhill lie, it's going to affect the ball.”

Not here. Not on this removable grass field installed in 2006, one of three in the world, which a team of engineers and helpers roll in and out of the air conditioned stadium on a daily basis in an operation that takes little more than an hour. It’s home for most of the year is a vast expanse south of the stadium, just outside massive airplane hangar doors, where its fed city water that soaks through layers of Bermuda, soil, sand, rock and finally, an 11-year-old rubber membrane. The whole thing is due for a change-out this offseason, which is a shame, because Dawson’s made some memories on it.

This is his first year in Arizona after signing a two-year deal worth up to $6 million in March, but the 42-year-old has played in this stadium five times as a member of the Browns and 49ers. In those visits he’s 8-for-8 on extra points and 8-for-9 on field goals. “It’s incredible,” Dawson says of the grass in front of him. “Cleveland doesn’t even compare. in that part of the world, the grass is long and thick and chunky. This is like hitting from the middle of a fairway.”

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After a grueling learning curve, a hot training camp and the longest season they have ever experienced, rookies are still chewed up and spit out by the league. By most first-hand accounts, it’s not until the start of their second season that players are truly able to grasp everything the league throws their way. If they make it that far.

Last year, the Broncos were a prime example of this. While the top of Denver’s draft had developmental players — i.e. Paxton Lynch and Adam Gotsis — there were other rookies the Broncos hoped would have an impact.

At season’s end, although every rookie played except for guard Connor McGovern — who was inactive for much of the season — only Devontae Booker played a significant role on either side of the ball.

Although every team would like to see their first-round pick be an immediate starter, all in all Denver’s rookies weren’t far off from the typical impact to most NFL teams.

Looking ahead, much of the same production can be expected from 2017’s batch of rookies, but perhaps in a different way: While there will likely be impact from at least one of the later-round picks (read below), left tackle, Garett Bolles, should deliver the greatest impact of the group, much as a first-round pick should.

As the offseason wrapped up, Bolles moved from the backup left tackle during OTAs, to platooning on the first team with Ty Sambrailo. If his development continues into training camp, it’s hard to imagine Bolles not locking up the left side of the line before the September 11 opening-night game against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Along with left tackle, there is another major hole from 2016 that can, and likely will, be filled by rookies, that of the third wide-receiver position. Instead of one player being called upon to fill this role, Denver may end up using a combination of Carlos Henderson (third-round selection) and Isaiah McKenzie (fifth round). Both players’ versatility, allowing them to each play in the backfield and at receiver, could have a significant impact on Denver’s offense. It wouldn’t be a surprise if only one of these players matriculates into this kind of role.

Outside of these three players, however, it’s hard to imagine any of the remaining rookies having a consistent impact during their rookie campaigns. Of the remaining five — DeMarcus Walker (second round), Brendan Langley (third), Jake Butt (fifth), De’Angelo Henderson (sixth) and Chad Kelly (seventh) — it is conceivable only one will see significant playing time on either side of the ball.

Langley, Henderson and Kelly are all longshots to see the field with the depth ahead of them, leaving Walker and Butt as probably the only two other players likely to make an impact.

Even as a second-round pick that was highly productive in college — leading the nation in sacks per game — Walker enters a crowded defensive line. As a pass rush specialist, Walker, currently listed at 280 pounds, will need to get as close to 300 pounds as possible in order to be anything more than a third-down pass rusher.