In what was one of the biggest surprises of the year so far in all of sports, Carolina Panthers star linebacker Luke Kuechly up and retired in an emotional video on Jan. 14. Kuechly retired from the NFL at just 28-years-old, and he’s not the first linebacker to do so at such a young age. This is a trend that is becoming more and more common among football players as the years go by. The Texas football program even experienced that with a true freshman linebacker last year.
Last fall, the Texas Longhorns football program figured out that it would lose the former four-star linebacker recruit and Westlake Village, CA, native De’Gabriel Floyd.