Now, after spending just over a month with Haynesworth as teammates in New England, Ellis is seeing his old friend emerge once again.
“He seems like he’s very relaxed,” Ellis said Thursday. “He’s ready to go play some ball.”
“Now, I’m back in it and am truly enjoying the game again, and I truly enjoy coming into practice or coming into work every day. Just to be able to have the chance again to play and to show what I can do is awesome,” Haynesworth said, “Now, I’m in this system and I’m playing and practicing and stuff, and I think it’s time for ... I guess, the sleeping giant to awake and to go back out there on my field and play football again.”
“He is a giant. He is a giant,” Ellis said with a laugh when asked about his 6-foot-6, 335-pound teammate. “Albert’s a pro. Pro’s adapt to whatever they have to go through. I think he’ll be all right.”