CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Dan Smoker Sr. hasn't met Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey.
At least, not consciously.
Smoker, 72, doesn't remember how McCaffrey and his friends helped save Smoker's life after a 20-foot fall during a March hike in Castle Rock, Colorado. He doesn't remember that McCaffrey and his family came to see him the next day at Sky Ridge Medical Center in Denver.
He doesn't remember anything about what happened for seven days after the fall because he was on a ventilator in critical but stable condition.
McCaffrey remembers everything about that day.