Erick All

No. 83 · 3rd season

Getting hit by a truck was apparently the sign he needed

Most people would hear 'you got hit by a truck' and feel the opposite of ready. Erick All heard it and came back louder.

All is a tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals working his way back from injury. That much was known. What changed the tone of the whole story was a moment he described himself — getting hit by a truck, which, in his telling, didn't break him. It convinced him.

'Oh, I'm back,' he said. And somehow, coming from someone who just went through that, it didn't sound like bravado. It sounded like evidence.

There's a version of a comeback story where the player grinds quietly and lets the field do the talking. All is telling a different one — out loud, from the start, with a kind of certainty that's hard to fake. Whatever the road back looks like, he's already decided how it ends.

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