Here's another article on Woodhead from a couple of days ago. Although a good article, reading this is frustrating, to say the very least........
<H1>Heard at Jets Camp: 'Woodhead Is Live!' </H1>
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CORTLAND, N.Y.â€"Jets coach Rex Ryan has a story about Danny Woodhead. Of course he has a story. This one dates to last season's training camp, when Mr. Ryan was so upset with the performance of his third unit one morning that he opted to let his players tackleâ€" a rare occurrence.
Mr. Woodhead happened to be the running back, so Mr. Ryan shouted: Woodhead is live!
That phraseâ€"more of an incidental football philosophy, reallyâ€"has stuck. "Woodhead's always live," Mr. Ryan said this week.
Mr. Woodhead, all 5-foot-9 and 200 pounds of him, is one of the unsung, undaunted players who toil in the shadows cast by the team's resident stars. In 10 games last season, he had 15 carries for 64 yards and eight receptions for 87 yards. His most valued contributions came in practice, where he often plied his trade as a scout team dynamo. He did what was asked of him, and he did it well.
"The answer is always 'yes' from him," Mr. Ryan said.
At the same time, as he enters his third NFL season, Mr. Woodhead acknowledged feeling the pull of his own ambition. In another life, in another football universe, the 25-year-old Mr. Woodhead was an extraordinary talent. He rushed for 7,871 yards in four seasons at Nebraska's Chadron State College, a Division II program where he briefly became the NCAA's all-time leading rusher. Undrafted, he signed with the Jets and spent his rookie season on injured reserve before finding a tenuous niche with the organization last fall. He aspires for more.
"I'd like to think that the coaches see some talent in me," Mr. Woodhead said. "I hope it's notâ€"I'd like to think it's not just that I'm a hard worker, although I don't think that ever hurts. They know what they're going to get out of me."
Mr. Woodhead's finest moment as a professional came in a preseason game last September against the Philadelphia Eagles. He rushed for 158 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries before fading into relative obscurity throughout the regular season.
He spent a lot of time learning how to play slot receiver, a role that the New England Patriots' Wes Welker has recently glamourized. "I want to do what's best for the team," Mr. Woodhead said.
During training camp here at SUNY-Cortland, Mr. Woodhead has been operating for the most part at running back, taking his carries and waiting his turn behind Shonn Greene, LaDainian Tomlinson, Chauncey Washington and, sometimes, rookie Joe McKnight. But when he does get his hands on the football, he tends to make nice runsâ€"and he shows no fear.
He had a particularly violent head-on collision with rookie safety Donovan Warren on Wednesday. Mr. Warren's helmet popped off and ascended skyward after the impact. "I think Woodhead lost a stripe!" linebacker Bart Scott shouted, referring to Mr. Woodhead's helmet. "I bet he lost a stripe!"
Mr. Woodhead was impervious to the commentaryâ€""Bart's always talking," he said with a wry smile. He made his way back behind the line of scrimmage for another play, another carry, another hard-earned opportunity. He was live.