Remember Former 49ers RB Glen Coffee? He’s An Army Paratrooper Now
Glen Coffee’s single year as a 49er may qualify as one of the strangest NFL careers. The summer after a promising 2009 rookie year, in which the third-round pick out of Alabama filled in nicely for an injured Frank Gore, Coffee up and quit. God didn’t want him to play football, he said in brief and guarded interviews. There’s more to life than the pursuit of money.
Later today, Coffee will graduate from the army’s Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga. He says he doesn’t miss the NFL, and that serving in the military is a much better use of his gifts than playing professional football.
“I figured that if I’m able, the Lord’s blessed me with an able body while I’m young, to get out there and get dirty.”
