CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Carson Wentz is a large man, comparatively speaking. But in person he’s a wiry 6-foot-5, 237 pounds. As he finished dressing in the visitors’ locker room at Bank of America Stadium on Thursday night, a national reporter asked the Eagles quarterback if he had broken any ribs from the hits he took.
Wentz, as he often does when being complimented or seemingly complimented — as the reporter’s implication that he had played through cracked ribs suggested — just smiled and shook his head.
A few moments later he strolled into a nearby room and climbed the podium for a news conference.