Wright, one of just five players on the active roster left from the 2013 team that won the Super Bowl, missed the first six games of the season with a knee injury.
The more the seasons roll by — faster than he ever imagined they would when he entered the NFL in 2011 — K.J. Wright has realized how much he’s going to miss football when his career is over.
So when he was told in August he needed to have a cleanup surgery to repair some damage to his knee, the initial thoughts of what it might mean for his contract situation were quickly replaced by the more immediate — and emotional — realization that the season was going to start without him.