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Before He Wrote Opinions, He Broke Tackles

From the backfield to the bench.

(Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg)

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

Which future Supreme Court justice was, briefly, the best running back in professional football — a first-round draft pick who led the NFL in rushing as a rookie, did it again two years later, and was for a stretch the highest-paid player in the league before he quit to go be a lawyer?

Hint: He squeezed pro-football in around a Rhodes Scholarship and Yale Law before hanging up his cleats.

See the answer on the next page.

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