On Friday, longtime NFL quarterback Michael Vick announced that he was officially retired from the National Football League. The former #1 overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft, Vick wound up playing thirteen seasons in the NFL, but was not part of any team in 2016. His last active season was with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015.
According to an interview with Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Vick may have gotten the final indication that his playing days were over when the Minnesota Vikings didn’t make any contact with him following the season-ending knee injury that Teddy Bridgewater suffered back in August.