A Portrait of Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Nice-Guy, Mean-Competitor, Badass-Geek QB

December 5, 2016   ·   Tyler Dunne   ·   Jump to comments

INDIANAPOLIS — The room is somber and muggy and still. Facing their lockers, the Titans' 46 active players are slouched on their stools and say nothing above a whisper. They stare ahead in a mad trance. 
Again, they have lost to the Colts. Again, Andrew Luck kept popping up from hits like some human jack-in-the-box. Of course linebacker Avery Williamson is exasperated.
In the first quarter, Luck eyed a lane, attacked, dove head first at the goal line and…whap! Williamson crashed over the top, inadvertently dinging Luck helmet to helmet. In the fourth quarter, two Titans players sandwiched Luck, and his helmet bounced off the turf.
Only later did Luck report he suffered a concussion. He should have never stayed in the game.
Then again, this is someone who lacerated his kidney and tore his abdominal last season. Someone who has been sacked 158 times in 71 career games. Luck gets smoked from the blind side, that Yukon Cornelius beard cracks into a smi...

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