Considering how punishing a football career is, that sounds like a good deal.

Look at Andrew Luck.

Swap it out for chess. Tell Magnus Carlsen he can't play chess anymore. Instead he gets paid to run a Stockfish team in an all-engine tournament.

	▲	thunky 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Computers can destroy Magnus. Yet he still plays and nobody gets to tell him or anyone else they have to stop. If people stop being interested in human-played chess, then yes he's out of luck. But that could happen with or without computers. Same for football and anything else. So I don't think this analogy works either.

OK, replace football with any other sport then.