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Christian D'Andrea

Shaquem Griffin, who played four years in the NFL with one hand, announced his retirement

Shaquem Griffin has lived most of his 27 years on this earth with only one hand. That didn’t stop him from playing professional football long enough to collect a pension from the NFL.

Griffin, a 6-foot, 227-pound linebacker, was born with amniotic band syndrome, which left the fingers on his left hand painfully underdeveloped. Though he had the hand amputated at age four, he still became a college football star at the University of Central Florida

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