Seahawks guard Chris Gray has been forced to call it a day after 15 seasons in the NFL. Gray suffered a seemingly innocuous lower back strain while performing a sled drill, only to find that he'd suffered a spinal injury and risked paralysis if he played again.
Gray took it in stride. As Seahawks beat writer Frank Hughes put it, "For his immediate future, he said he is going to do perhaps some marketing for the team. 'Kind of like what Brett Favre is doing,' Gray said. "Except I won't be getting $20 million."