Want to see the ugly side of professional football? Tyler Varga can show you.
Chances are you forgot about him. He was the surprise survivor of the Indianapolis Colts’ final cuts last August; the Yale grad with the incredible backstory; the running back who began training camp sixth on the depth chart who never saw any practice snaps and whom no one gave a shot to make the team.
Then he did. Then he played in a few games.
Then he disappeared.
What you didn’t see was the concussion that lasted four months, the days and weeks he spent inside dark rooms, the test he kept failing, the words that got stuck in his mind that his mouth couldn’t spit out.