Julio Jones is one of the greatest ever to do it, and through the years he’s fought through a lot of injuries to play, sometimes in games of great importance and sometimes in games that don’t mean much at all. Even in the Saints game, where the Falcons were getting creamed and he spent much of the day on the sidelines, #11 forced his way back into the game to make one big catch before exiting for good.
The reality is that Julio is no longer 25—hell, not many of us are—and injuries that he was once able to push through might be unwise to push through now.