Especially these days where athletes have the ability to extend their peak playing years via nutrition, actively taking care of their body properly, sports science, various technology that allows them to increase recovery/slow down the aging process, much improved medical treatments and procedures that return them to near 100% prior to injury, etc
I think the peak years for athletes are increasingly getting longer and extending later in their careers and will continue to do so as new technology comes out and as more and more science becomes available and increasingly used by teams to help protect their investments. Still at the very early stages of this mindset shift