Jeff Herrod wouldn’t slow down. He couldn’t. Football was his oxygen. It gave him so much then. Thirty years later, it’s taking everything from him. ✍️ zkeefer
His dress clothes hang idle inside the closet of his north Florida home, a dozen suits collecting dust because he can’t slip them on. Not by himself at least. He settles for athletic clothes most days, the best he can manage without his wife’s help.
When the neighborhood boys tell him they want to play football, and they want to make it all the way to the— just like he did — he chuckles. “That’s because you haven’t seen my hands,” Jeff Herrod will tell them. He’ll watch them shudder after they get a glimpse of his fingers darting out every which way but straight.
“You know the name Dave Duerson?” he asks, referencing the former NFL safety who died after shooting himself in the chest when he was 50 years old. “That used to be me. I actually thought about how I’d do it.” He did. Despite no invitation to the NFL Scouting Combine, despite being a ninth-round pick — No. 243 overall in the 1988 draft — Herrod became the heartbeat of the Colts’ defense for a mostly dreadful decade of football. He was a tackling machine, averaging 130 a year for 10 straight seasons, a team captain nine times, a constant amid ceaseless turnover. Herrod played for six head coaches, including interims, during his 10 seasons in Indianapolis.
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