Brandon Graham can look back at Super Bowl LII, more than seven months and exactly 33 regular-season roughing-the-passer penalties later, and recognize just how fortunate he was.
He had made the most consequential defensive play that night, surging through the marzipan-soft middle of the Patriots' offensive line, forcing the fumble and the turnover that assured the Eagles of their first NFL championship in 57 years. Yet he acknowledged Tuesday that he sometimes stops to ask himself: What if his left hand, the one he used to bat the football out of Tom Brady's right, had been six inches higher?