Arizona Cardinals impending free-agent RB Rashard Mendenhall said he was tired of living a ‘private life in the public eye’ as his reason for considering retirement at the age of 26 years old. ‘I just kind of wanted to disappear,’ Mendenhall wrote. ‘The fact that I was done playing would’ve been clear once some time had passed and I hadn’t signed back with the Cardinals or any other team. Maybe people would’ve thought I couldn’t get another job. Either way, I was OK with the idea of fading to black, and my legacy becoming, ‘Whatever happened to that dude Rashard Mendenhall? He was pretty good for a few years, then he just vanished.”
NFL | Rashard Mendenhall tired of NFL life