(CNN) — Quarterback Andrew Luck, the very first pick website the 2012 NFL draft and a four-time Pro Bowl selection, declared on Saturday night that he’s retiring.
“This is not an easy decision,” the Indianapolis Colts player told reporters. “For the previous four years or so I’ve been in this cycle of harm, pain, rehab, injury, pain, rehab. And it has been unceasing and unrelenting… and the only real way I see is to not play football.”
From acting in the preseason 29, Luck had been kept by injuries. He was about the Colts’ sideline Saturday during a preseason game against the Chicago Bears in street clothes. As the news of his retirement spread, Luck has been booed as he left the area, quite a few videos shared on line show.
Luck said the pain has taken away his joy for the game and he hasn’t been able to live. He and with the 2016 year performed with in pain,” he explained, and made a vow he wouldn’t go down that street again.
He missed the 2017 year because he was recovering from knee operation, in accordance with the Colts web site. When he returned to the 2018 year, he’d a 98.7percent passer rating, 39 touchdowns and has been chosen for the 2018 Pro Bowl. Luck had been granted the AP Comeback Player of the Year season.
However he said that because he couldn’t put his soul to the match; he’d have been promoting himself and his teammates brief.
He said he informed his teammates before that he was retiring.
Luck signed a five-year, $122 million deal in 2016, based on spotrac.com. He would have earned an average salary of $9.125 million in 2019 along with a roll up bonus.
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