Kendall Hinton, 24 years young, looked at his smart phone and saw his obituary staring back at him.
On Nov. 2, the only man who’d ever run a mile in his shoes, former Colts running back Tom Matte, died from complications related to leukemia. Matte was 82.
TOM MATTE, EMERGENCY QUARTERBACK FOR THE BALTIMORE COLTS, DIES …
Matte was 82. Hinton was alone. The Living Instant Quarterback Club was done to one again.
“Literally, in the NFL, Tom Matte is the only person that could ever understand that position,” said Hinton, the Broncos wide receiver who a year ago this month became only the second player in modern NFL history — and the first since Matte in 1965 — to start a game at quarterback as a non-quarterback.