In every great journey, there comes a point at which our hero faces a challenge he cannot immediately surmount. Having survived the wastes of poor Falcons teams past, having endured one of the most crushing losses a player can experience, and having left it all on the field over and over again for franchise, Grady Jarrett deal with something new and terrible in 2023: A season-ending injury.
Heading into last year, Jarrett had missed just three games in his NFL career. The ultra-durable team leader had been a fixture on this team and the franchise’s best defensive lineman basically since he arrived in Atlanta as a fifth round pick back in 2015, but in 2023, a serious injury limited him to just eight games.