Everybody knows the NFL can be a cold-blooded league at times. So many young men come to it with dreams of carving out long careers and achieving the same things their heroes of childhood did. Far too often, however, most of them are told by general managers and head coaches that they weren’t good enough to make it. This leads many to believe the big decision-makers at the top have no heart. They’re simple robots removing weeds from a garden. Ryan Poles quickly proves that the opposite is true.