Ten years, seven trips to the playoffs and two Super Bowls later, Tomlin stands as proof of how Rooney’s rule should work. Hernandez, 27, is already serving a life sentence for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. “I just got done jumping on the trampoline with my two-year-old daughter,” Heap told Byrne, “and it’s hard to get a bigger smile than that. “The enthusiasm and commitment to develop a high-performance culture is unlike anything I’ve seen before,” he says.