Ryan Mundy's blog

First week back on the team and it felt great to wake up and to to work! Getting back into the swing of things now. It was nice coming back to the only NFL organization I have ever known because things were definitely very familiar. The players, the coaches, the facility, it is just great to back home. A typical day during the practice week is me waking up at 6am so I can fight with the traffic from my house to the Steelers headquarters. Then I lift at 7am, have defensive back meetings at 8am, special teams meetings at 8:30am, team meetings at 9am.

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm back on the Steelers squad, practice squad but nonetheless I'm back on and ready to help this team win some games, win the division and make a run in the playoffs. Check out the roster if you don't beleive me http://news.steelers.com/team/player/. Some things had to be worked out with my injury status. When I was initially released by the Steelers, it was because of my ankle injury and so they even reached an injury settlement with me so I could have a little cash to rehab and eat.

Everything is going well, finally feeling like my ankle is getting back to normal and I am just excited to get back out on the field with a team.

What's up ya'll? It looks that I might be getting back on the field as early as next week. Talking with my agent, teams are interested in getting me tryout. Nothing has been scheduled as of yet but I am hearing that I should be ready next week.

What's going on everyone? I know it has been a while but I didn't exactly know what to post after the Steelers let me that I wasn't going to be part of their 53-man roster to start the season. They definitley attributed me to not making the team to my injury and did not completely shut the door to me coming back once I am healthy and gave me some very encouraging words upon my departure. The NFL is a business and they have to keep things moving and I have to keep things moving so I wasn't upset at all when they gave me the news.

Well my first game as a professional is in the books. We went up the Philadelphia Eagles at home last Friday night. It was really exciting to be in Pittsburgh playing my first professional game being that Pittsburgh is my home town. I played well the time I was in the game. Unfortunately for myself, I injured my ankle a few plays into my debut and didn't get to play any past the first series of the second quarter. They diagnosed me with a mild high ankle sprain.

Welcome to my blog. This is my first entry on JOCKLIFE.com so please bear with me as I get used to this. I'm also trying to get used to being a professional athlete and I'm sure it is just going to get more intense as training camp nears.

I'm excited that JOCKLIFE.com has asked me to blog for their site. Basically I am just going to talk about what is on my mind and the experiences I am going through as a rookie in the NFL. With that said, let's get this rolling.

It has been a bit since my last post and I would just like to start to let you that I have been good. Training camp has just been taking up all my time and then when I do get a break I just want to rest. So far during training camp I have been holding up pretty good, I am just tired at the end of the day. My legs feel good though an overall I feel good. We really have been working hard during training camp thus far and I am just trying to maintain my body the best I can so I can be at my peak level throughout the duration of camp.