Dan Wetzel has been a Yahoo Sports National columnist since 2003.

He's been all over this, Aaron Hernandez.

Trial, he joins us on the AT&T expert hotline.

Mr. Wetzel.

Hello, sir.

How are you guys?

We are doing well, and obviously a lot of unknowns about Aaron Hernandez's life,

a lot of things that are coming up.

But you do a good job of portraying just how hard a time he had in prison.

You think of someone who's super athletic, who's a big guy and, you know, famous,

and maybe we misconstrue just how that would go over in prison.

Yeah, you know, I think, you know, look, it's all speculation.

We don't really know what it was running to Aaron Hernandez said, but, you know,

Aaron spent his whole life where everybody, the world revolved around him.

It's a high school, huge high school star

in a small town in Connecticut. And, you know, when he would get in trouble at the University

of Florida, it would be all right. As long as you're delivering as a superstar athlete,

everyone allows things to happen. Everyone kind of worships you. You're in control.

And I don't know that he didn't think when he got into, when he got incarcerated, that

that would be the case with his prison life and that he would, you know, he talked openly and

bragged to guards. i'm going to run this

place and this place is nothing they've released now uh nearly 300 pages of his of his time and

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