Corey Webster Gets Better With Time

 Note: Some of the quotes and text of this article are taken from a great post by Patricia Traina on Inside Football. Here is the link to the complete post. Enjoy.

CB Corey Webster was selected in the second round by the Giants in the 2005 NFL draft. He had hoped to go in the first round, but an injury set him back. “I’m going to tell you the truth,” Webster said when asked about whether his ego was bruised when he slipped to the second round. “No, it wasn’t really a blow because I understood the situation. To be hurt is hard because you can’t do anything about it. But in the end, it made me a better person.”

Webster flourished in the 2007 Super Bowl season when Spags came to the rescue to help assist the defense. Not only was Webster excited by Steve Spagnuolo’s arrival, but the feeling was mutual.

Apparently, Spagnuolo was equally excited to have a player of Webster’s talents on his side. “When he first got here — before he even coached a down — he told me that I was going to become the player I am now,” Webster said. “He saw that in me after watching film and said, ‘this is the player you are, and I’m going to help you become that player.’ He told me to keep on working like I had been doing, and to take advantage of every opportunity I go, and that it would all come together.”

Because of his trials Webster feels he has grown a lot as a person. He went on to say, “I think my situation made me a better person, a bigger person,” he said. “Mine is a lesson that I think everyone can learn. Things aren’t going to be handed to you. Things aren’t always as good or as bad as they seem. My personal circumstances made me look at the game and at life differently, and I feel that I’m a much better person because of what I experienced.”