After becoming the only defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy in 1997, Woodson lived up to the hype in the NFL, making eight Pro Bowls, earning four first-team and three second-team All Pro bids, being named Defensive Player of the Year twice, and
And the one who taught him how to do that was his former teammate — and Sunday's foe with the Oakland Raiders — Charles Woodson. Every day, Shields sprints for 100 yards. And then he does it again. And again. Then he hits the stairs, taking those two
On a rainy early evening four days before Christmas, Charles Woodson, 39, sat down in the media room at the Raiders practice facility and told about a dozen Bay Area reporters Monday that he was retiring. “Thursday's my last home game,” he said, with
The NFL and all 32 of its teams need to make an example of Woodson. When you do your rookie symposium next spring, don't teach your rookies how to not talk, teach them how to talk as Charles Woodson talks. That's how you grow the game the right way.
And the one who taught him how to do that was his former teammate — and Sunday's foe with the Oakland Raiders — Charles Woodson. Every day, Shields sprints for 100 yards. And then he does it again. And again. Then he hits the stairs, taking those two