The wide receiver catches a great pass in the big stadium scene and then puts on the motors completely unaware that the ground beneath him is collapsing as he runs.
It’s like playing a fictional version of himself, but I guess that’s what most cameos are where a celebrity plays themself.
Ward plays himself in the movie, but as a professional athlete for the Gotham Rogues.
It’s not often a football player is asked to show up on the set of a movie and do what they’d usually do, so Hines Ward should feel lucky for the gig he got in The Dark Knight Rises.