"Confident" Cade Mays goes into second year with familiarity

Augusta Stone

CHARLOTTE - There's a reason many often expect players to make a jump between year one and year two in the NFL.

More aspects of the game are natural; there's an adjustment to the pace of play, and there's a kind of familiarity in the day-to-day that's hard to reach when you've had less than a year to get to know coaches, teammates, the playbook, and getting around a new facility.

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