I could sit here forever trying to write the perfect opening for this article, but it would never ever live up to the man I’m writing about. I thought about comparisons to superheroes with famously subdued alter egos like Superman with Clark Kent, or the Hulk with David Banner, and it just never felt right, or it felt like sensationalizing a man who’d never want that. Luke Kuechly in everyday life was ultimately like many of us... just a regular person. Despite being a living football god at the linebacker position, his personality couldn’t have possibly been more unchanged by it off the field.
Luke Kuechly retiring was too soon for all of us, but never too soon for him
