"It's called Thyroiditis, it's a viral infection that lands in your thyroid, that causes your thyroid to overproduce that hormone. Which causes loss of stamina, fatigue, increased heartrate, all of the above. It was a three-week period. It hit me hard that Iowa State week, that was the first game I ended up sitting out. The effects of it kind of lingered on into the season, too - not being able to lift or work out or do anything those three weeks, it took me a while to get back into full game shape. That was kind of the disappointing part of it."