TAMPA, Fla. — Only a couple of months back, the notion of Cam Akers walking to the postgame podium — much less juking and jump-cutting through the midsection of the Cardinals defense — with nary a limp seemed preposterous.
Yet there he was Monday night, bedecked in a hoodie and humility, addressing his staggering evolution from a ruptured right Achilles tendon to rupturing Arizona’s psyche and season.
“Just blessed, man,” the second-year Rams tailback and two-time FSU 1,000-yard rusher said.