![]() ![]() People feel like they can control everything around them but the only thing they can control is how they react, he said. I didn’t have to listen to anybody telling me anything because I was better than everybody else.” “Money changed me, OK? I developed this idea that success was money, power and prestige and now I had all this money, which gave me this power,” said Leaf. ![]() On Aphe was drafted by the San Diego Chargers’ pick in the NFL draft and was paid $31 million at the age of 21. His team went won a championship and played in the Rose Bowl, he said. After high school, he attended Washington State University where he finally felt he was part of a community. Because of his athletic talent, Leaf said, he was treated differently while growing up, put on a pedestal, and allowed to get away with bad behavior. He was raised by “two amazing parents,” yet ended up in prison. “There are more first round draft picks in the Manning family than the whole state of Montana.” “I’m the only Montanan ever drafted in the first round of the NFL draft,” Leaf said during a Radnor Speaker Series talk at Radnor High School on Tuesday. But Leaf abruptly retired from the Seattle Seahawks at the age of 26, leaving a void in his life that he eventually filled by turning to opioid drugs. RADNOR – Ryan Leaf was on top of the world as a star NFL quarterback who was paid millions for his talent on the field. ![]()
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