(Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared Aug. 2, 2017 on DallasCowboys.com. It has been updated since Jason Witten’s announced retirement.)
FRISCO, Texas – Three days earlier, Jason Witten could hardly move.
Three days later, the NFL’s iron man is dressed for success.
It’s April 21, 2017, the end of Witten’s first week back at his day job. He’s relaxed in a high-back leather chair at a personal development conference hosted by SUCCESS Magazine, 12 miles north of the Dallas Cowboys’ new world headquarters.
The venerable tight end is without the silver-and-blue armor that has shielded him from combative linebackers, predatory rushers and ball-hawking safeties.