Quinn has returned to form as one of the top pass rushers

Robert Quinn has returned to form as one of the NFL's top pass rushers

by Gary Klein


Robert Quinn needs a bottle of water.

The Rams’ relentless defensive end is not sweaty or fatigued from going through pass rushing drills. He is noshing on a sandwich and a taco, trying to explain some physiology.

So he asks a teammate at another lunch table to toss him a bottle.

“Perfect example,” Quinn says as he twists off the white cap and then sets it gently back atop the bottleneck, “The tumor is sitting right on top of the spinal cavity.”

The tumor did not prevent him from becoming a first-round draft pick in 2011, however, or earning millions as one of the NFL’s most feared pass rushers.

“I realized at a young age how fast life can either welcome you or make you have a rude awakening,” he says of the benign, dime-sized tumor. “And it gave me a little of both.”

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