Andrew Luck’s retirement from the NFL sent shockwaves through the league on Saturday night as one of the elite players in the game abruptly called it a career two weeks before what should have been the start of one of his prime years in the league.
I’m not going to get into the timing of his decision and what it means because only an athlete knows when it’s time, but it is always stunning and sad when a great career gets cut short, and it’s kind of amazing it does not happen more often.