As long as Garett Bolles lives on a football field, as long as he has a blind side to protect, he will find motivation from those who don’t want him there. Who didn’t want him there.

Bolles is in his ninth NFL season and has three kids. He has undergone one of the most drastic maturity shifts from 19 to 25 years old , and from 25 to now, of any man in the league. Few doubt Bolles any longer. But he’ll still look for the ones who do.

This summer, while scrolling through social media, Bolles landed on a preseason list ranking the top 10 tackles in the NFL in 2025. He wasn’t on it. So Bolles took a screenshot of it, as his uncle, McKinley Oswald, recalled.

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The sentiment was simple: OK, then.

“It’s still that screens

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