I hope Trent Richardson salvages his career in Baltimore, it would be a feel good story. The reason Richardson says he has been a bust so far in the NFL isn’t anything physical, but all mental.
“As a person at that time, mentally (I) wasn’t stable enough to play football, for any level,” Richardson said in a revealing interview with CSN colleague Chris Miller. “My mindset wasn’t right for it, I had too much going on outside of football. The football was always there, but everything that carried on outside the field, it carried onto the field. I couldn’t think about football all the time. Football became little to me at the time.”
However, Richardson has far loftier goals than just making the team. Asked how his NFL story would end, Richardson set the bar high.
“Putting on a yellow jacket,” said Richardson, referring to making the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “People wrote him off, he came back and did some amazing things. He always had the pedigree. He just had to get back to the guy that we know.”
Good luck.
