2 pick, Robert Griffin III, was an instant star with the Washington Redskins. And Wilson, a thirdround afterthought, had the Seahawks within a field goal of the NFC title game. Luck and Griffin got their teams to the postseason, too.The players association insisted on the cutbacks during CBA negotiations, and with player safety a major issue, the NFL agreed. Doug Casa, professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut and the lead researcher for the Korey Stringer Institute, already has seen many health benefits resulting from the 2011 CBA. A leader in heat illness detection and prevention, Casa advised the league and the players' union on establishing practice guidelines during the hottest time of the year.

"It puts a target on your back everybody wants to knock off the Jets," Harrison says. "Nothing irritates a player more than when a coach talks. You have a chance to smack a player in the mouth a coach does not strap it on.The church in rural Jaso