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GREEN BAY — Justin McCray isn’t sure if his bobblehead actually looks like him. But in this case, it really is the thought that counts.

Two summers ago, McCray was in training camp with the Green Bay Packers, trying to make the unlikely transition from hotel bellman to NFL offensive lineman. By season’s end, coach Mike McCarthy would be calling him one of the team’s MVPs for his remarkable versatility amid a spate of injuries up and down the line.

But at the time, he was a nervous former undrafted free agent who’d been out of football and trying to earn an against-the-odds roster spot.

That’s why longtime offensive line coach James Campen’s training camp gift — bobbleheads for each lineman, made in their own likenesses — meant so much to McCray. Campen had them made not just for the starters, not just the guys likely to make the team, but for every single lineman on the roster in camp.

“I’m definitely better looking in real life,” McCray said, chuckling. (McCray also confirmed Monday afternoon that he still has the keepsake safely stowed away “in the same exact place in my locker” that it’s been since Campen finally gave the players the go-ahead to remove them from the offensive line meeting room after the 2017 season ended.)