Bryce Huff abruptly retired from the NFL in March at the age of 27. He instantly transitioned to the thing Hall of Fame head coach Chuck Noll called a football player's "life's work."
As explained recently by Vic Tafur of The Athletic, Huff and his older brother have started a company that hopes to address the fire risk of lithium-ion batteries.
"I feel like we're going to save a lot of lives and protect a lot of companies," Huff told Tafur.
Bryce Huff has funded the company, which currently has six employees as it ramps up, with some of his $40.6 million in career earnings.
"Everything is slowly but surely containing batteries, from cars to our tools to bikes, you name it," Huff told Tafur. "The biggest risk with batteries is the way they ignite if they were to take on some type of damage or malfunction or short circuit. One cell in the battery combusts . . . and then it's just like a chain reaction throughout the battery."
The goal is to find a way to quickly extinguish such fires, without toxic chemicals being released.
"There's not really much on the...