The questions come often, but they’re always the same. When you are Shaquem Griffin, you expect it.
Griffin, the UCF linebacker who gained fame in 2016 as the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year, had his left hand amputated when he was 4 years old. The procedure was prompted by pain that he eventually could not bear, the result of a rare birth defect known as amniotic band syndrome. The circulation in his lower left arm was blocked, stunting normal growth to his hand while in the womb.
Doing everything one-handed is his way of life.