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Rob Gronkowski has already put collectively one NFL comeback in 2020.
Is Rob Gronkowski weighing one more NFL comeback?
Cecil Lammey of DenverSports.com dropped an fascinating nugget of knowledge on social media Tuesday — reporting through league sources that the 35-year-old Gronkowski is figuring out and weighing one other return to the gridiron in 2025.
“Sources inform me Gronkowski has been figuring out in Vail this offseason as he desires to bodily be prepared for one more NFL season,” Lammey wrote. “Excessive-altitude coaching within the offseason may put together for the pains of coaching camp if a group exhibits curiosity.”
Gronkowski isn’t any stranger to shaking off the cobwebs from retirement and returning to the enjoying discipline.
The longer term Corridor-of-Fame tight finish introduced his retirement from the Patriots following the group’s win in Tremendous Bowl LIII towards the Rams on the finish of the 2018 season — solely to play one other two seasons from 2020-21 after becoming a member of Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But it surely didn’t take lengthy for NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport to close down the rumor of Gronkowski’s return, calling Lammey’s report “nonsense” on social media.
Gronkowski impressed after returning to soccer following his first retirement — profitable a Tremendous Bowl with Tampa in 2020 and reeling in 100 catches for 1,425 yards and 13 touchdowns over his two seasons with the Buccaneers.
However the final time that Gronkowski took the sphere in an NFL recreation was greater than three years in the past, on Jan. 23, 2022. And when he first introduced his retirement from New England at simply 29 years previous, he was candid about how a a number of of accidents pressured him to stroll away from the sport.
“I obtained accomplished with the sport and I may barely stroll,” Gronkowski mentioned in August 2019 of a quad harm he suffered in Tremendous Bowl LIII. “I slept 5 minutes that evening. I couldn’t even suppose. I used to be in tears in my mattress after a Tremendous Bowl victory. It didn’t make that a lot sense to me. After which, for 4 weeks, I couldn’t even sleep for greater than 20 minutes an evening. I used to be like, ‘Rattling, this sucks.’ It didn’t really feel good.
“I wish to be clear to my followers. I wanted to get well. I used to be not in a very good place. Soccer was bringing me down, and I didn’t prefer it. I used to be dropping that pleasure in life,” Gronkowski added.
Even when his enjoying days are over, Gronkowski stays concerned in soccer — working with ex-Patriots teammate Julian Edelman on Fox’s NFL protection.
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