Five straight All-Pro seasons ended on one Monday night hit in December 1987. The nerve never regenerated. Four years later Dwight Stephenson started a construction company with his wife, and stocked the drywall himself.

Chris Coghlan sits down with Pro Football Hall of Fame center Dwight Stephenson, co-founder of D. Stephenson Construction, to discuss what transfers from a locker room run by Bear Bryant and Don Shula to a job site — and what doesn’t. From his father working two jobs for 47 years to a first contract that took the company from zero to 200 people in a month, Dwight lays out the second career he built after the one he trained for was taken away.