Chad Hennings, a former defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, has three Super Bowl rings from his nine-year football career — a career that ended in 2000 after a spine injury sidelined him. Before becoming a Cowboy in 1992, he was a star football player at the U.S. Air Force Academy and an Air Force veteran who flew 45 missions in an A-10 Thunderbolt fighter jet over Iraq. Hennings — now a successful motivational speaker — was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame last week.

But according to the 10th Court of Appeals in Waco, Texas, he is not a successful workers’ compensation claimant.