MANKATO, Minn. -- When the Minnesota Vikings took Gerald Hodges in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft, their linebacker situation was no more settled than it is now.

They were in the process of moving Erin Henderson from weak-side linebacker to the middle of their defense, meaning Hodges had a chance as a rookie to battle for an unsettled position with underwhelming competition.

That Hodges never came close to overtaking Marvin Mitchell (or, before he got hurt, Desmond Bishop) for the Vikings' weak-side linebacker job speaks to what he said was his biggest problem as a rookie: his focus. He played 11 games as a rookie but was mostly confined to special-teams duty, playing just two snaps on defense, according to Pro Football Focus. When Bishop tore hisAs the pounding went out of control, the hand gripping my hair at the back of my neck became an ecstatic sensation. His weight, his desire, the angle of my neck, his hand pressing and gripping, his fucking rawness, but the fog in my eyes, spreading from the sides of my field of view, as I ached and fucking screamed, was getting deeper. My head, singing from the submissive I'd become, feeling the weals and cuts stinging from the sweat and the salt of him, but now, this was different. My brain awash with the tightening, hearing him let loose now, floating in the pure connection of just fucking sex. Feeling him slamming harder, into my belly, hurting me, but fucking loving a man just unravel his deepest