"Steve's the leader of this team," Wilcox said. "You want your leader to come back healthy and come back ready to me. With the surgery he had and as beat-up as he got last year, you have to take into consideration whether or not he's going to be OK. Right now, he looks great. I think he's doing a heck of a job to prepare for this season."
Though still in the midst of preparing for the draft, general manager Ozzie Newsome will be more than an interested observer at minicamp.
"I think the coaches are looking forward to the players and the players are looking forward to the coaches, and it's going to be fun for me to go out and watch other people coach and teach and motivate," Newsome said. "It'll be as fun for me to watch the coaches as it will be to watch the players."
