Super Bowl champion reveals he was 'temporarily paralyzed' but still played two weeks later

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Derek Wolfe won a Super Bowl in 2016, but it didn't come without some risks.

The former Denver Bronco had one of the biggest scares a football player could have on the gridiron.

During the 2013 preseason, a fullback hit Wolfe on the top of the head after a cutblock, and he was stretched into an ambulance and driven to a hospital. 

That hit made Wolfe's body go numb "from the nose down" - but Wolfe said he was back on the field in two weeks.

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Denver Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe (95) lies on the field motionless during an injury in the first quarter against the Seattle Seahawks August 17, 2013, at CenturyLink Field. He was taken to a local hospital and is evaluated for a cervical spine injury and has movement in all of his extremities. (John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

"I was paralyzed for three hours, and then I played two weeks later," Wolfe told Joe Rogan on his podcast. "It was miserable. Every time I got touched, my arms would go numb. And I'm a defensive lineman, so my head's getting hit every play…"

Wolfe added that his team doctors underplayed the severity of the injury, saying, "it was just a stinger" and comparing it to how it takes a while for lights to turn on, but they shut off immediately.

Doctors in the hospital wanted him to stay, but team medical staff tried to convince them Wolfe was good to go just hours after the hit.

That's when he realized "they don't care about us."

Denver Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe (95) gets looked at by the medical staff after suffering an injury in the first quarter against the Seattle Seahawks August 17, 2013, at