A month was all Jermaine Waller needed to know the NFL was not for him.
An undrafted rookie cornerback out of Virginia Tech, Waller retired from football this week, prompting the Detroit Lions to place him on the reserve/retired list Wednesday.
"It wasn’t for him, and that’s OK," Lions coach Dan Campbell said Thursday, on the final day of mandatory minicamp. "You don’t know until you know, and I think he felt like that was — that this wasn’t for him, and that’s OK. So I wish him the best of luck.”
Waller had a successful but injury-crossed college career, missing most of 2020 with a foot injury.