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PFW: I read that you had Lasik surgery three weeks before the Scouting Combine.
Bowman: Yeah, that?s true. I had an incident this summer where I had gotten bleach in my eyes using a teammate?s eye drops. It started making my vision worse by the day because it was scarring my eyes, so I needed to get it re-done. I did it right after the Senior Bowl, knowing that I had almost three weeks before the Combine. And it didn?t go as well as I thought. But the incident happened in July or August, 2007 and it was too close to the season to get it done then, so I had to wear these contacts. And they helped a little bit, but I still needed to get the surgery done.
PFW: How did that affect your performance at the Combine?
Bowman: I couldn?t really see that well, because after having it done for the second time, one of (my eyes) didn?t heal correctly, so I couldn?t really see at the Combine. So I wasn?t going to attempt to catch anything because I couldn?t see. I just told coaches and GMs that I would catch at my pro day.
PFW: Did the league?s coaches and GMs ask you about that in interviews, or about your character following the UNC situation?
Bowman: They were OK with the surgery because they knew I would be ready on my pro day. And I think I had a good pro day, so it all worked out. But in the interviews they basically just ask me how things have been going ever since then, or if it still affects me today, and I tell them that everything?s good and that it?s really turned my life around. I?ve put it all behind me, and it?s something I can?t change, so I don?t worry about it anymore.