Bob Glauber
Bob Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets Show More
David Wilson thought he was dead.
“You know the cartoons, how they die and ghosts carry them out of the body?” Wilson said, remembering back to the hit that essentially ended his NFL career after less than two seasons. “When I hit the ground, I’m like, ‘It’s over with.’ ”
This was the fifth game of the 2013 season, and Wilson, a running back chosen in the first round in the previous year’s draft, was tackled for no gain deep in Giants territory in the second quarter against the Eagles at MetLife Stadium.