The mental stress of being an injured high-paid athlete who can't help the team is the hardest part of the NFL
Knowing that you're getting paid millions of dollars to play this game and you're sitting in a training room not on the field... that weighs so heavily on your mind because all you want to do is get back out there for everybody involved and you feel like you are letting everybody down. I wasn't able to handle that properly.
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