You can't go home again, Thomas Wolfe once wrote, but when it comes to sports that isn't necessarily true. Most of the time, actually, athletes just don't go home again. It doesn't make sense for them, or their one-time team. But Karlos Dansby did it (twice!) and that first time especially, the linebacker was epic.

Yet, to have Calais Campbell come back to potentially wrap up his career is a storybook kind of ending.

Look, a guy still has to be able to play to have this make sense. But Campbell, despite going into Year 18 and about to turn 39, can still play. He'll be a rotational guy, but in that role last year, he had production that a guy 15 years his junior would love to have on the defensive line.

(It should be noted there are a fair number of Dolphins fans and media lamenting that Miami let Campbell leave.)

When the Jaguars traded Campbell for a fifth-round pick to the Ravens in 2020, fans asked why the Cardinals couldn't/wouldn't make that deal. When Campbell left Baltimore as a free agent and signed with the Falcons, I was asked why didn't the Cardinals sign him. When he was leaving Atlanta and landed with the Dolphins, I was asked again.

This time, it happened.

There's no way to fully understand the benefit Campbell -- the 2019 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and one of the best humans you'll meet -- will bring to the locker room. That alone would help, but when that guy can still contribute impactfully, it means so much. He's one of those guys if you spilt his career into two careers -- the first nine years with the Cardinals, the eight seasons since -- they both would be amazing careers to stand on.

But it's all Calais' resumé.

There are players you get to know as a reporter, and others you get to know well. Campbell is one of those guys who everyone he gets to know, you think he knows you well. That's his vibe. The smile off the field. The intensity on it (laughable that one knock coming out of college was that he didn't have a motor, given that we are 18 years into the NFL).

Calais coming home sure feels like a happy ending.