Another Bengal who chose, rather than was forced, to retire. In this case, it was primarily to protect his piano-skilled fingers.NWebster wrote:Mike Reid, Mike Reid and Mike Reid.
Who were some promising corners that had to retire early?
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Nick Collins had to retire two games into the 2011 season with a neck injury.
He had been an AP second team All-Pro and Pro Bowler in 2008-'09-'10 and his pick-six in Super Bowl XLV in February of 2011 put Green Bay up 14-0 in what would end up a six-point margin of victory for the Packers.
He had been an AP second team All-Pro and Pro Bowler in 2008-'09-'10 and his pick-six in Super Bowl XLV in February of 2011 put Green Bay up 14-0 in what would end up a six-point margin of victory for the Packers.
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Roger Kochman, victim of one of the most horrific injuries pro football has ever seen. He played four games and showed tons of potential ...
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The injury in question was Theismann-like in its gruesomeness: 10/20/63, while playing for the Bills in Houston. Kochman was being tackled by two Oilers (275-pound DT Dudley Meredith and 245-pound DE Gary Cutsinger), with his cleat stuck in the ground. One leg crossed over the other and the combination of that, being off-balance and being tackled at the same time ended up snapping his leg at the knee. The injury was bad enough that he spent two months in a Houston hospital, with the injury described as near-fatal because a main artery had been severed. He ended up having a total of nine surgeries over a period of 30 months. BTW, Joe Paterno (then a Penn State assistant) personally had recruited him to go to Happy Valley.JeffreyMiller wrote:Roger Kochman, victim of one of the most horrific injuries pro football has ever seen. He played four games and showed tons of potential ...
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That injury is way worse than the Ken Dyer injury in 71. And that one was bad (I don't want to talk about it, though). He was a CB, too (with Cincinnati).BD Sullivan wrote:The injury in question was Theismann-like in its gruesomeness: 10/20/63, while playing for the Bills in Houston. Kochman was being tackled by two Oilers (275-pound DT Dudley Meredith and 245-pound DE Gary Cutsinger), with his cleat stuck in the ground. One leg crossed over the other and the combination of that, being off-balance and being tackled at the same time ended up snapping his leg at the knee. The injury was bad enough that he spent two months in a Houston hospital, with the injury described as near-fatal because a main artery had been severed. He ended up having a total of nine surgeries over a period of 30 months. BTW, Joe Paterno (then a Penn State assistant) personally had recruited him to go to Happy Valley.JeffreyMiller wrote:Roger Kochman, victim of one of the most horrific injuries pro football has ever seen. He played four games and showed tons of potential ...