When Steelers linebacker Cole Holcomb went down with a knee injury in 2023, he didn’t need a doctor to tell him his season was over. He knew instantly.
“I was just wanting to get off the field,” Holcomb said via The Standard on the team YouTube. “I knew it was a bad injury, so I was just telling them, ‘Get the cart out here and get me outta here so we can do it not in front of everybody.'”
That marked the beginning of a process that took nearly two years before Holcomb got back on a football field.