Jake Locker, Patrick Willis and Maurice Jones-Drew are all 30 or younger, and they all announced their retirement this week
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I found myself on YouTube the other day, trying to locate a video of a hit Jake Locker took early in his career as a college quarterback at Washington, a blow that I still recall because it lay Locker so flat on the sideline that I honestly wasn’t sure if he was ever going to get up. I remember watching that moment, and I remember thinking, “I hope I didn’t just watch a football player die.”