Football is a game of attrition. For a career to be successful, there is an element of luck.
No player escapes injury, but some are lucky enough to escape serious injury and others are able to avoid devastating injury.
Injuries in all sports shorten careers and hamper production but in football they can end careers and alter trajectories of players.
The Chicago Bears are no different than many other franchises, they’ve had plenty of great talents seen their careers zapped because of injury.
The idea for this article stemmed from this tweet I came across over the weekend:
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: If you come across this tweet, reply with the one athlete you’d wish had been perfectly healthy their whole career.