Bryce Huff’s six-year NFL career with three different teams will not qualify him for Canton. That is not unusual. The Hall of Fame was a stretch for most of us.
The defensive end signed with the Jets in 2020 as an undrafted rookie out of the University of Memphis. He started 7 of 54 games in New York. The Eagles signed him to a three-year contract in 2024, but injuries slowed his progress there. He was traded to the 49ers and played in the Bay Area last year.
In a league where many of us wanted just that “one last season”, Huff announced his NFL retirement last April because he knew what his second career would be.
Recently, Huff joined his brother Jordan on a full-time basis in an infrastructure fire safety business they founded two years ago.
Naberstone is their company and its purpose is to build fire interruption systems to mitigate fire risk created by lithium-ion batteries. Naberstone’s target list of clients includes industries ranging from data centers to charging stations to aerospace companies.
“Everything is slowly but surely containing batteries from cars to our tools to bikes,” the 28-year old alum recently told The Athletic. “The biggest risk with batteries is the way they ignite if they were to take on some type of damage or malfunction or short circuit. One cell in the battery combusts…and then it’s just like a chain reaction throughout the battery.
“When I started in the NFL, I couldn’t put my love for engineering to good use. Now that we are working with engineers daily, it’s nearly as good as being an engineer myself.”
When Huff announced his retirement via Instagram last spring, he expressed his appreciation for our great sport.
“I started playing football when I was four years old,” Huff explained. “Growing up in Mobile I wasn’t the biggest or the strongest and I didn’t have many friends. All I really had was the game. Football kept me grounded. It gave me something to hold on to.”
We at NFL Alumni thank our brother Bryce Huff for his years in the league. We wish him and his brother much success with their company. The nature of their business serves as a reminder to all of us that we and our families can never be too safe around lithium-ion batteries.
