With the team cutting its roster to 53 players on Tuesday, defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery called Heflin to break the news. Seeing who was calling, though, Heflin feared the worst.
“I was like, ‘Oh, no,’” he said. “I was nervous right away when I got the call. But he’s like, ‘Hey, you made the 53.’ He’s like, ‘Congratulations.’ And I was like, ‘Wow.’ I started kind of shaking a little bit, I’m like, ‘There’s no way. Am I being pranked? Am I still dreaming?’ Because that’s how I got woken up. So, I’m like pinching myself and making sure I’m awake. But, yeah, that was the call. And he was like, ‘Call your folks.’ And I called my mom right away, and then I hustled straight to the facility like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to go to meetings and stuff.’ But it was the greatest day of my life. If I get a phone call like that every single morning, I’d be pretty happy, if that’d be my alarm clock. That wouldn’t be too bad.”
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