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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles knew his first-round rookie “crushed” his conditioning test. What offensive tackle Darnell Wright didn’t tell his GM? A misunderstanding helped give him a boost.
Wright, the 10th overall pick of the 2023 NFL Draft, had planned to train hard this summer as he prepared for the pro level. But he ended up training even harder when he followed the wrong set of instructions.
“I was looking at the wide receivers’ running portion of the workout, so I was doing theirs,” Wright laughed during a Friday interview. “And then I came back and obviously we had different stuff. Just more distance in lower time, basically.”
Wright didn’t remember the exact difference in measurement, estimating that receivers were asked to train roughly eight or nine 200-yard sprints in roughly 20 seconds per sprint. He excelled in the metrics he ultimately was tested on, prompting Poles — a former NFL training camp invitee at offensive line — to send him a GIF of Drake clapping furiously at a basketball game. “He’s an offensive lineman so like you said, a little bit of a nerd with it,” Wright said. “He definitely loves O-linemen.”
Wright aims to continue cultivating that love with his attention to detail, dropping 16 pounds this summer without losing muscle mass in a shift that he says has allowed him to feel a step quicker without losing power. He’s in second-year left tackle Braxton Jones’ ear “probably more than he wants,” trying to find every edge he can to succeed.
“Coming in as a rookie you just try so hard not to mess up,” Wright said. “You want to not be the typically stupid rookie.” If such “stupidity” translates to these results, offensive coordinator Luke Getsy is all for more of it.
“Well, let’s make sure we make that mistake again, because he came in looking great,” Getsy told Yahoo Sports. “It’s a rookie mistake, classic never-been-there. You show up 20 minutes earlier than you have to and you sit and wait, or an hour early and you’re always waiting. Or you’re nervous you’re missing something all the time.
“That’s the life of a rookie.”
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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