RIP Bill Fralic

What happened to Fralic's career. He was the number two choice in the draft, which is probably the highest selection ever for a guard, makes first team All-Pro in years two and three and the Pro Bowl in years four and five. Then he plays three more years in Atlanta, one with Detroit and he is gone.

 

NFL: average career length | Statista

 

11.7 years on average for at least one pro bowl selection seems way too high. How many players reach 12 years let alone surpass it to balance out all the players with fewer than say 5 seasons. Or is it a reflection of smaller pro bowl rosters in the past?

 

If your offense gets 80 snaps a game and you play 200 games in your professional career (not even counting college and high school), you're talking 16,000 high speed collisions between 250-300 pound men. The human body wasn't designed for that kind of violence. I think of Jim Otto and wince.

 

The Steelers were big steroid users when Fralic was at Pitt. No problem for him to get Stanazolol or what ever it was he was abusing.

 

Didn’t fralic admit that he stopped using steroids after a few seasons in the nfl, which is about when you see a dip in his level of place since he was lining up against guys who still were using?

 

You still watch the NFL? there's still a lot of guys who look more like Regrigerator than Fralic --
Snacks Harrison, Lane Taylor, Linval Joseph, DJ Fluker.