I'm torn on this a little bit because he was really badly injured many times and didn't play basically at all his first 5 years
That said when he enrolled at Miami he went into their undergraduate program to get a "second entry level degree" after 7 years at Oregon....so after 9 years I'd expect someone to have at least finished grad school.
Must have been really emotional work through so much physical torment, play 9 years and then suddenly try to win in your very last game and catch passes in the 2nd half from the backup while your starting QB quits on you.