Once, Luke Kuechly showed me his hands. It was sticky summertime, and we were talking about fly-fishing. He loves to tie his own flies, and it bothered him that he couldn’t do so during football ...

Fly-fishing rods look, to an untrained eye ... There’s a space in each of the homes of Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly and his good friend, team athletic performance analyst Brett ...

Luke Kuechly is by nature unassuming and down ... He'd much rather discuss his favorite non-football activity: fly-fishing for trout -- a passion he developed growing up in tiny Evendale, Ohio.

Here are their responses in which they talk about who the biggest jokesters on their teams are, hiding snakes in their locker room and their passion for fishing. Kuechly, through the company ...