Create a 10-word scroll-stopping headline for: With a deal in place, Jalen Coker can turn full attention to football this offseason | Vibe NC

Of course, as mentioned, there have been injuries in back-to-back years: a hamstring in 2024 and a quad in 2025. Canales bragged last season, though, that Coker poured a ton of time and effort into eliminating those soft-tissue issues moving forward. And now knowing he’ll be here long term, the third-year player is focusing his work on playing a full slate.

“Injuries and stuff, they’re going to happen, but, you know, preventable things like that, I wanted to do my best to make sure I could limit all the possibilities of any soft tissue things coming up,” explained Coker.

“It was a lot of ground beef, a lot of rice, salmon, just locking in diet-wise. It’s not fun, but it has to happen,” he joked.

“But that’s the easy part, especially when — if you have the ability to go play, and doing that little stuff can get you to where you need to go, it’s an easy commitment to make.

“It’s a lot of extra treatment, a lot of mechanics, a lot of smaller things like that, I just try to continue to get better at. Nothing in particular that I’m really working on, just all preventative, more stuff like that.”