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By Michael Silver, Yahoo! Sports
August 20, 2007
Ronde Barber remembers, with all too vivid clarity, the knot that formed in his chest as he watched a teammate collapse. It was one of those chilling training-camp moments that every NFL player fears, a potentially lethal combination of relentless heat, extreme physical exertion and a body that literally begins to shut down from the stress....
I never knew that happened to Whitaker.Quote:
Ronyell was an ‘effort guy' – if you told him to do something he'd do it hard and fast, and doing that was his only chance to make the team," Barber recalled. He essentially ran himself to exhaustion in practice, and he got to the locker room and just fell out. He was standing in the training room and all of sudden, bam. He passed out and hit the floor, and emergency people came rushing in.