When the news came out last week that Connor Halliday had retired from football, I was as surprised as anyone.
We had talked to him on our show from the Seattle Sports Star of the Year awards at Benaroya Hall in January. He sounded fired up for his chance to play in the NFL, drafted or not.
Halliday told us about his rehabilitation from a broken leg, an injury suffered against USC on Nov. 1 that ended his record-breaking career at Washington State. He didn't sound like a guy who was going through all of this work to suddenly quit one day, right before his opportunity was scheduled to begin at the Redskins' rookie minicamp.