For years, after he walked away, Andrew Luck became an invisible part of the world in which he’d once been a hero. Instead of practicing at the Colts complex on 56th Street, he walked by and took his daughter to soccer practice. The film room in the house he’d built in Indianapolis became an office. The physical therapy room turned into a guest room.
It was here he transformed himself, from someone who identified as a great quarterback to someone who identifies as a husband, a father, a student. Maybe one day, he’ll be a coach.
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But whatever he pursues next, he’ll do it with a different perspective — one that only comes through experiences that left Luck living in, as ESPN’s Seth Wickersham describes, “a silent hell, scared and panicking.