Former Broncos and Ravens defensive end Derek Wolfe retired from the NFL at age 32 in 2022, and with good reason. During a recent interview, he shared that he suffered some devastating injuries and yet was lucky enough to walk away on his own terms.
“I had double hip surgeries. I tore the labrums off the bone. The injuries I had while I was in the NFL was just out of control,” he said on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “[In] 2013, I bruised my spinal cord. I was paralyzed for three hours and then I played two weeks later.”
He added the experience was “miserable” and “every time I got touched my arms would go numb.”
