Every day he looks in the mirror, the scars on each of Gabe Perez’s shoulder can’t be missed. He’s had three operations on them, after all.
They’re a reminder of what perhaps could have been, but also what have inspired him to keep playing. The redshirt senior linebacker has played in five games over the last two seasons, and those injuries nearly led him to decide to end his Boise State career.
“I thought about it,” Perez said. “But then again, I thought about 20 years from now, if I would regret it if I had one more year?