The last time Adam NeVille, the president of the San Tan Youth Football League, saw Matt Prater in person was Tuesday night, on a football field in their southeastern Phoenix suburb.

Prater, one of the league’s volunteer assistant coaches, was helping out with his son’s team in the 9-to-11-year-old division and was uniquely qualified for the role. Through last season he had played in every NFL season since 2007 as a kicker, including the last four with the Arizona Cardinals, and even held the league’s record for most field goals over 50 yards.

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But when NeVille and Prater saw one another last week at practice, there was a real question as to whether Prater would be playing a 19th season at all. The day before, all 32

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