The Rundown: Gholston Gaining in a Defense to be Tailored For Him?

Rex giveth and Rex taketh away. As are the rules in Florham Park, if you get a game ball, then get a national award, your ball gets redistributed to a teammate. The Rex Rules are the rules, and one rule says that if you get a game ball on Monday for your play on Sunday but then you get a league award on Wednesday, you give the game ball back. Such was the case with Jason Trusnik, who received his second game ball of the season for his special teams play against Tennessee but then was honored earlier today with the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week award. And so “after further review,” Ryan and his staff have regifted Trusnik’s game ball to … LB Vernon Gholston. “I thought Vernon did an outstanding job Sunday. He prevented a touchdown on sheer hustle,” Ryan said of Gholston’s solo tackle of Tennessee’s Chris Johnson 30 yards downfield at the end of a fourth-quarter run that, had No. 50 not been so inclined, was ticketed to become a ...