"When we were doing our halftime warmups," Boone said, "coach asked me, 'How would you feel about catching a pass?' I told him, 'Sounds real good.'
"I got my chance in the fourth quarter. After I was out there for three plays, I looked to our sideline and [playfully] threw my hands up to say, like, 'When's my chance?' They called me over and asked if I knew what a 'zero hitch' was. I wasn't sure, but they told me. It's really like a screen pass. You take one step across the line, then come back and make the catch.
"The guys were excited in the huddle. When 'Huddy' [Anwar Mathis] called the play, they were happy I was getting my chance. I was happy, too. I was smiling on the inside - laughing, really - but I didn't show anything on the outside because then they would have known the play was coming to me."
Boone made the catch close to Franklin's sideline, and his teammates exploded in joy.
"I treated it like a normal play," he said, laughing. "Just went back to the huddle. I wasn't even nervous when the ball was coming at me. Wasn't time for that, really. I just wanted to make sure my hands did their job."
On special-teams duty, Boone also made his first two tackles of the season. One was even a solo.
When asked to explain his dedication, Boone responded, "I've got that urge to get better. I've got all next year in front of me. If I want to be out there, I have to work hard now, right?"
