‘“Discouraging, I wouldn’t say that, but it was a motivation. I didn’t have OTA’s, preseason, rookie minicamp, the list goes on of things this rookie class wasn’t able to do,” Epenesa said to reporters on Zoom on Thursday. “Week one, game one, just coming fresh off of camp, I’m still making strides, still working to get better every single day and maybe it just wasn’t time to get in yet, and I just needed another week of preparation. I used it as something to push me to keep working harder for the next week.”’