OWINGS MILLS, Md. – Hunter Wohler leaps in the air, stretching his arms up to snatch the football flying over his head. He immediately tucks the ball to his chest before twisting and tumbling to the ground, where he stays for a moment to make sure he really did just catch that football.

When he gets up, the football in his hands, his grin is visible through his face mask as he greets his teammates, all of whom have rushed to join him to celebrate the rookie's interception. No one was more visibly excited than linebacker Segun Olubi, though, who was leaping and hollering all the way out to greet Wohler on the field, then all the way back to the sidelines. It was hard to make out exactly what anyone was saying in all the hollering and cheering, but one thing Olubi yelled was clear:

"Manife

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