Giants tight end Darren Waller is retiring from the NFL at age 31.
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Waller had stayed away from the team this offseason as he contemplated his future, bypassing a potential $200,000 workout bonus and now a base salary of $10.525 million for this upcoming season.New York was expecting an answer by their mandatory minicamp, which is taking place Tuesday and Wednesday. They now move forward withGiants tight end Darren Waller is retiring from the NFL one year after New York acquired him in a trade with the Raiders. for a third-round pick last March.
"I feel like if I were to continue down the same path, I probably wouldn't be alive, or I would be in jail or in a mental institution, probably," Waller told ESPN in 2019."It was that bad."Waller was eventually signed by the Raiders off the Ravens' practice squad during the 2018 season. He thrived there with a new outlook and sobriety.
But this offseason he has kept busy working on his music -- he released a new song recently -- and said in an interview with The Athletic he was questioning his"commitment level" to football. He always seemed to be leaning in the direction of retirement, which the Giants knew dating back to January.
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