Former Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Ron Parker announced he was officially done pursuing a professional football career on Monday with a post on Twitter sharing his news and perspective after an impressive eight-year career in the NFL.
Parker will be familiar to Chiefs fans as the longtime tandem partner of Eric Berry in the defensive backfield in the earliest days of Andy Reid’s tenure with the team. In fact, it was Reid who was a central focus of Parker’s message to the league and fans with his Tweet in which he said, “This man believed in me when no one else didn’t.