Archives for April 25, 2016

'"When I started playing football as a little kid, the last thing on my mind was, ‘Will I be able to walk when I’m 50?' " he said, according to the newspaper. "Will I be able to keep a train of thought when I’m 45? When I’m 50, will I suffer from uncontrollable mood swings? And even worse, will someday I be so depressed that I would take my own life?"'

'A case can be made for the Buffalo Bills taking a wide receiver in the first round of the NFL Draft, but I won't make it.'

'Thomas said the doctor told him after an MRI that the frontal lobe of his brain was "similar to someone who has fallen off the top of a house, on to the front of his head, or going through a windshield of a car several times. He said decent … for an NFL football player who had just played in the National Football League for 13 years. Not great, but decent." '

' "On so many days, I have to apologize to my family for them. I thank God that I have a family that understands the things that I've been through over my 13-year [professional] career, and even after my 14 or 15 years that I've been retired. They all understand that with my mood swings, sometimes I just can't help it."'

'The team had excellent attendance last week for the first round of workouts. Of the players who are medically cleared to workout, wide receiver Sammy Watkins was the most notable absence the first day when the media was able to watch for about twenty minutes. But he was back in town later in the week and working out with his teammates.'

'Here are a few names to keep in mind as legitimate possibilities, you know, just in case……'.

'“You hear a lot about building up the middle and that’s pretty much the way Carolina has done it with the strength of their team being those defensive tackles and their linebackers,” said NFL.com draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah. “They’ve got a premier corner in (Josh) Norman, but that team is really built up the middle.'