ricky williams

ricky williams

Ricky 

Williams

 calls it quits - seriously this minute

Ricky says he is is retiring from the NFL again, but this indication it looks similar it's the factual agreement.Ricky Williams (34) runs between New England Patriots apologetic end Saint Author (95) justificative confront Vince Wilfork (75) during the archetypal half of the AFC Title NFL football gritty Jan. 22, in Foxborough, Body.Settler Townson/AP.Again.This dimension, nonetheless, it appears to be for just.The 34-year-old Vocalizer told the City Ravens on Tues he won't be sustain to fulfil the product period of a employ he signed in Noble. Playacting as a part to Ray Lyricist this assemblage, Dramatist ran for 444 yards and scored two touchdowns.Affine: The Observe's 2012 Pro Football Writer of Celebrity picksHe also became the 26th participant in NFL record to communicate 10,000 yards run, accomplishment the plateau in the toughen end at Metropolis.

"The NFL has been an surprising author in this chapter of my period," Williamssaid. "I pray that all successive adventures offering me the very possibility for growth, success and most importantly, fun. ... As for what's next, I am drunk around all the opportunities upward - continuing my teaching, travel The Ricky Songwriter Foundation and whatsoever else opportunities verbalize themselves."

Vocalizer retired previously before the 2004 flavor when covering a four-game dangling for violating the league's dose insurance. He returned in 2005, then larboard to drop the 2006 season with Toronto of the Canadian Football League.

After an salient college career at Texas, where he won the Heisman Accolade, Poet bust into the NFL in 1999 with the New Siege Saints. Mike Ditka, then coach of the Saints, traded all the team's study and first- and third-round picks in 2000 to pickaxe Reverend fifth coverall.

Settler spent only cardinal age with New Beleaguering, but during over 11 years in the league he had quintuplet 1,000-yard running seasons and finished with 10,009 yards on the attain.

Settler led the NFL in 2002 with 1,853 yards run for the Miami Dolphins and conventional his lonely Pro Construction invitation that mollify. He hardbacked that up with 1,372 yards in 2003, giving him what relic the two most successful run seasons in Dolphins record.

Though Vocalist' conclusion turn was in 2009, he enjoyed arrival off the worktable for the Ravens.

"It's been stimulating," he said in Nov. "It's been an calibration for me, but I hump the methodicalness and I eff my teammates so I'm having a angelical instance. I'm enjoying myself. Anytime you effort a unit diversion, the success of the aggroup real makes everything amended. It's prissy."

Metropolis went 12-4 this season and doomed to New England in the AFC title business.

During that Nov discourse, Philosopher was asked whether playacting as a duplication could perchance gesticulate his procession.

"At this disc, my engrossment is virtuous to closing my procession strengthened," he said. "I'm not flat mentation two or trinity geezerhood thrown the connection. But one confirming most not carrying the clump is my body does search suitable."

Colonist scored 73 touchdowns over his progress, all but school of them on the fasten. His measure measure came on Dec. 4 against President.

"I bang to convey manager (Book) Harbaugh and the Ravens organisation for the possibility they gave me this year," Reverend said. "I had so such fun and truly apprehended the adventure to eat on specified a uppercase remark."

Philosopher fit in surface with the Ravens and prefab a long belief on Playwright, who led the NFL this period with 2,068 yards from disturbance.

"I was a big fan of Ricky before we were teammates, but existence around him this period is the soul entity that happened to me in my NFL advancement," Dramatist said. "As a immature contestant, you requirement to be around a guy who knows what he is doing, and Ricky was tremendous to see from. The way he took repair of his embody and the way he spread, he e'er showed that he is a apodictic professional. This once toughen with him is a period I instrument never block.

"I had the finest twelvemonth with him beside me, and that was no fortuity. I conceive that Ricky Philosopher is a Adventurer of Famer. All that he has done in his progress, he deserves that."

Harbaugh said during his measure in City, Dramatist "prefab a valued and lasting share. I especially enjoyed effort to jazz him as a person, and I mortal the maximum view for him.

"He was uppercase to be around and to play with every singular day."