‘”When they draft you and the fans and everybody expect things from you, how can you prove to them if you aren’t getting an opportunity?” said Thomas, adding his playing time is more adequate this season. “Sixty percent of last year I was getting like one snap a game. I can’t do anything with that. You have to accept all the media stuff and the fans saying, ‘He’s not doing that.’ They don’t know, they don’t watch the individual players and say, ‘Well, he got one snap a game, so we can’t talk about him, we can’t say stuff about him.’ ”’