Calvin Ridley stepped away from the Falcons and football in the fall of 2021 to take care of his mental health, and a million theories about the why rushed in. People wanted to know what he was dealing with, and that desire for information directly from Ridley himself only increased when we learned he had been suspended for betting on NFL games. The team stayed mum out of respect for Ridley, and aside from an occasional tweet, we heard little from Ridley.
Ridley was ultimately suspended for the entire 2022 season, and all we really heard between that suspension and the end of February was that his home was broken into and that the Falcons had traded him to the Jaguars.