{"id":159397,"date":"2026-08-03T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/03\/before-he-wrote-opinions-he-broke-tackles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:48:29","slug":"before-he-wrote-opinions-he-broke-tackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/03\/before-he-wrote-opinions-he-broke-tackles\/","title":{"rendered":"Before He Wrote Opinions, He Broke Tackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which future Supreme Court justice was, briefly, the best running back in professional football \u2014 a first-round draft pick who led the NFL in rushing as a rookie, did it again two years later, and was for a stretch the highest-paid player in the league before he quit to go be a lawyer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He squeezed pro-football in around a Rhodes Scholarship and Yale Law before hanging up his cleats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/before-he-wrote-opinions-he-broke-tackles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Before He Wrote Opinions, He Broke Tackles<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1403235906-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photographer: Samuel Corum\/Bloomberg)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which future Supreme Court justice was, briefly, the best running back in professional football \u2014 a first-round draft pick who led the NFL in rushing as a rookie, did it again two years later, and was for a stretch the highest-paid player in the league before he quit to go be a lawyer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He squeezed pro-football in around a Rhodes Scholarship and Yale Law before hanging up his cleats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/before-he-wrote-opinions-he-broke-tackles\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/before-he-wrote-opinions-he-broke-tackles\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. 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