He's a good, rangy kid who comes with some football experience. He has good hands and has good speed. He's also a starting safety, with a Rodney Harrison mentality [of hitting hard].

Hoffman continues to be a strong runner in this offense.

ACE is the philosophy that we want our team to follow. Attitude, Character, Effort. If we take care of all three of those things, this will be a good football team.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something

A very tough guy, hard working guy, loves the game, studies the game. He's very, very into football. It's important to him.

I was shocked when I got the call. I still regard myself as being very strong on football, and I think we had a great season. I can't accept that my work is any less than it was in the past. I feel I story-tell as well as anyone. I won't take this as a defeat.