Madison — Almost four months removed from announcing he was retiring from football because of concerns about brain injury — at age 24 and after just one season in the National Football League — former Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland hears one question over and over:
How can you walk away from all that money?
"That has been the biggest surprise for me," Borland said last week at the 2015 Legends of Wisconsin Golf Classic. "People can't get over the money.
"That's all they think about. But your health is a little more important."
Borland, an All-American and the Big Ten defensive player of the year as a fifth-year senior in 2013, appeared at ease talking about his decision to quit football, a choice he made public in March.