Most importantly, Reitman said, the movie is about the rookies, the potential draftees "who spent their entire lives trying to be football players, somehow dreaming that one day they're gonna get to play in the NFL, and most of them don't."
The "tension that's put on them,Stitched Jerseys, and the pressure and the emotionality of that moment is something that we can all understand," Reitman added.
