said there were a "few teams" interested – reportedly, he was to visit the Colts had he left Arizona without a contract.

Here, Pugh is reunited with former college teammate Chandler Jones, a defensive player he would battle at Syracuse in practice and who joined him as showing up to college undersized.

"Me and Chandler didn't know how good we were in college," Pugh said. "Chandler weighed about a buck-twenty when he came to Syracuse. I was out of shape. They called me 'Pugh-ny,' that was my nickname when I first got there.

"We made a pact when he was a junior and I was a sophomore we'd both go first round."

Jones was the 21st pick in his draft, and Pugh went 19 a year later.

Pugh acknowledged he was taken aback a little once he realized the Giants weren't going to bring him back – "It's like that first girlfriend, you think it's going to last forever" – but he enjoyed the chance to go through free agency and get to truly choose where he was going to play football for the first time in his life.

"It's great to be wanted," he said.

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