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* American Football safety Nick Collins, a three-time Pro Bowler with the Green Bay Packers who had set records with his interception returns, was on the path to a Hall of Fame career until a freak accident on a routine play in 2011 left him with a herniated disc in his neck. Collins was forced to undergo major spinal surgery[[note]]incidentally the same procedure that ended the career of another Packers player, Sterling Sharpe, 16 years earlier[[/note]], and [[CareerEndingInjury was never able to play professional football again]]. Collins did get several standout years and a Super Bowl ring prior to the injury, making him one of the more successful examples of this trope, but he and many of his former teammates believe he could have been one of the best safeties of his era (up there with legends like Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu) if his career hadn't been cut short.

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* American Football safety Nick Collins, a three-time Pro Bowler with the Green Bay Packers who had set records with his interception returns, was on the path to a Hall of Fame career until a freak accident on a routine play in 2011 left him with a herniated disc in his neck. Collins was forced to undergo major spinal surgery[[note]]incidentally the same procedure that ended the career of another Packers player, Sterling Sharpe, 16 years earlier[[/note]], and [[CareerEndingInjury was never able to play professional football again]]. Collins did get have a more successful career than many examples of this trope, having several standout years and a Super Bowl ring prior to the injury, making him one of the more successful examples of this trope, but he and many of his former teammates believe he could have been one of the best safeties of his era (up there with legends like Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu) if his career hadn't been cut short.
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* American Football safety Nick Collins, a three-time Pro Bowler with the Green Bay Packers who had set records with his interception returns, was on the path to a Hall of Fame career until a freak accident on a routine play in 2011 left him with a herniated disc in his neck. Collins was forced to undergo major spinal surgery[[note]]incidentally the same procedure that ended the career of another Packers player, Sterling Sharpe, 16 years earlier[[/note]], and [[CareerEndingInjury was never able to play professional football again]]. Collins did get several standout years and a Super Bowl ring prior to the injury, but he and many of his former teammates believe he could have been one of the best safeties of his era (up there with legends like Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu) if his career hadn't been cut short.

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* American Football safety Nick Collins, a three-time Pro Bowler with the Green Bay Packers who had set records with his interception returns, was on the path to a Hall of Fame career until a freak accident on a routine play in 2011 left him with a herniated disc in his neck. Collins was forced to undergo major spinal surgery[[note]]incidentally the same procedure that ended the career of another Packers player, Sterling Sharpe, 16 years earlier[[/note]], and [[CareerEndingInjury was never able to play professional football again]]. Collins did get several standout years and a Super Bowl ring prior to the injury, making him one of the more successful examples of this trope, but he and many of his former teammates believe he could have been one of the best safeties of his era (up there with legends like Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu) if his career hadn't been cut short.

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