Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees said he might have played several more years in the NFL if not for degeneration in his right throwing shoulder.
Katherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and she has covered the NFL since 2013. You can follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_Terrellquarterback Drew Brees said he might have played several more years in the NFL if not for degeneration in his right throwing shoulder.
"At the end of the day, it's like, how capable ... am I to do the job, right? I would've run QB draws, I would've done whatever. I would've done some veer option. We would've pulled out all the stops. I was ready. Pull out the high school playbook," Brees joked. "I can drop a dime like 30 yards, left handed. Unfortunately you need a little bit more than that to compete at this level," Brees said."I throw left-handed with the boys, with everything. Anything below my shoulder, below the waist, racket sports, golf, that's fine."
Brees said that the injury was significant enough that he considered cashing out an insurance policy he took out on himself during his final season in San Diego. "He said you're on the fast track to a degenerative shoulder. And so at some point this will catch up with you," Brees recalled."All that wear and tear and all the work that was done. ... Unfortunately there will be attrition at some point. I hung on as long as I could."
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