Andrew Luck breaks silence on rumor Colts forced him to retire in 2019
This was a wild rumor.
Andrew Luck breaks silence on rumor Colts forced him to retire in 2019 originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Andrew Luck's retirement from the Indianapolis Colts remains one of the most shocking sports stories in recent memory.
In the last week, there've been some new discussions about what really happened when Luck decided to leave the NFL while in the middle of his prime. Former NFL tight end Eric Ebron essentially suggested that the Colts forced Luck to retire. “Andrew then decides that he’s so tired of—he don't tell nobody this, this is the backstory—he's so tired of injury, and he doesn’t wanna do his surgery," Ebron said on his On My Soul podcast .
You know who the man is around there that gets on everybody’s nerves. Big drawers over there behind that desk [Chris Ballard]. He tells Andrew, ‘You’re either playing this year, or we’re moving on.
' Who the f--- would tell Andrew Luck that? Andrew Luck now says, ‘I’m not gonna be ready. I’m tired of playing with pain.