Former Pittsburgh Steelers RT Zach Banner “made it”, winning a starting job, his future ahead of him. Cruel fate had other plans, however, as he tore his ACL in his first game as a starter in 2020. He has hardly played more than a handful of snaps since then—hasn’t been in the league for years.
But Banner has been working all that time, he insists, still pushing for his comeback. He just launched a podcast and went into the work, both physically and mentality, that goes into his journey. Now 31 years old and with 307 snaps under his belt, he surely knows his odds are long.