The Untold Truth Of Andrew Luck

On August 24, 2019, Andrew Luck's Indianapolis Colts lost to the Chicago Bears in an NFL preseason game. The quarterback, sidelined with an ankle injury, didn't play that night, but he certainly grabbed all the headlines, when, after the game, the 29-year-old held a press conference to announcement his retirement from football. 

The reason for what Luck called "the hardest decision" of his life? His string of injuries sucked out a lot of the joy of football for him. "For the last four years or so, I've been in this cycle of injury, pain, rehab, injury, pain, rehab, and it's been unceasing, unrelenting, both in-season and offseason, and I felt stuck in it," Luck said. "The only way I see out is to no longer play football." Indeed, Luck's career was beset by devastating injuries that benched him for half of the 2015 season, left him playing "in pain" in 2016, and then excluded him entirely in 2017. He leaves behind a stellar, if short, legacy as the third most-productive passer in Colts history, behind only Peyton Manning and Johnny Unitas. (And he's always got that architecture degree to fall back on.)

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