Back on December 4 of 2017, then Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier saw his career end on a freak spinal cord injury while making a tackle. Shazier’s comeback has been nothing short of inspirational even if he never got well enough to return to football.
But Shazier said that even after everything he went through if he were deemed healthy tomorrow, he would come back and play football. Shazier spoke in an interview and made it clear he would want to return to the Steelers.
“100 percent.” Shazier said, “If I could, right now, wake up tomorrow, and they say, ‘Hey Ryan, you’re 100 percent healthy,’ I would call coach (Mike) Tomlin.”
Shazier was a phenom for his short NFL career. His passion for the game and the ability he showed on the field put in a very small group of players. The fact that even now, after all of the trials and tribulations he’s been through to recover, Shazier would return to football if given the chance speaks volumes about him.
