Bulaga Ready For Next Step

Published April 29, 2010 at 4:35 p.m.
He won't get to put on full pads, or even hit anybody with any authority this weekend during the Green Bay Packers' rookie orientation. But first-round draft pick Bryan Bulaga is pretty excited just to be getting back out onto the field.

Throughout the entire NFL Scouting Combine and pre-draft process, Bulaga had to answer all sorts of questions about the thyroiditis that forced him to miss three games last season at Iowa. He had to listen to critics question whether his arms were long enough or his hands large enough to be a successful left tackle in the NFL.

But after all the extensive scrutiny - which he survived another round of in his first formal meeting with the local media in the Lambeau Field auditorium on Thursday afternoon - Bulaga is more than ready to stick his nose in a playbook and his facemask in somebody else's, beginning Friday with the first of three rookie workouts in the Don Hutson Center.

"I'm excited about that, getting back on the fo..


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