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Ryan Shazier Remembers His Spinal Injury, Says It Took Him A Week To Understand Severity: ‘I Was In Denial’

Ryan Shazier has a new podcast, Don’t Call It A Comeback, that shares his story and the stories of others. In the most recent episode, he and co-host Dave Dameshek relived Shazier’s career-ending injury suffered on December 4th, 2017.

Shazier retells the story of the hit he had on on Cincinnati Bengals’ WR Josh Malone that left him paralyzed and finished playing football.

“The biggest thing I can remember from that moment is once I hit the receiver on that route, my legs just basically, when I hit him I dropped immediately,” he said.