When K.J. Malone decided to retire from football after spending last weekend in rookie minicamp with the Houston Texas, his reasons were twofold: injuries and a higher calling.
A knee injury caused him to miss six games of his senior season. It happened at Florida during the first series of the game.
“I was trying to stop a bull-rush and my knee kind of sublux—which is kind of dislocated a little—and it made me have a slight tear in my patellar tendon,” Malone told me on my radio show.
Malone rehabbed the injury for the remainder of the season in a effort to return for the Citrus Bowl against Notre Dame, but was never fully healthy.