After all, Tom Brady hasn’t put an end to his career. At least not yet.
ESPN reported Saturday that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback was retiring after 22 seasons in the NFL. But according to sources close to Brady, including his agent Don Yee, the 44-year-old remains undecided about his future.
“I understand the anticipated speculation about Tom’s future,” Yee wrote in a statement. “Without getting into the accuracy or inaccuracy of what is being reported, Tom will be the only person to express his plans with complete accuracy. He knows the realities of the business of football and the planning schedule better than anyone, so it should be soon. “.
Brady also contacted Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht and told him he hadn’t made a decision on retirement, according to Mike Silver of Bally Sports and Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times.
Jeff Howe of The Athletic adds that Brady told the Bucs he’s “not even close” to a decision.
Additionally, Brady’s TB12 brand deleted his tweet acknowledging the retirement news. And to top it off, Tom Brady Sr. told KRON4 News that his son is not retiring and that ESPN “started circulating an unsubstantiated rumor.”
The announcement of Brady’s retirement was also made known by the NFL through a message on its social networks.
Brady, who spent the first 20 years of his career with the New England Patriots, had said for years that he planned to play until age 45.
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Brady, who turns 45 on Aug. 3, already outclassed all players in his own class in the 2000 draft, when the Patriots selected him 199th in Bill Belichick’s first season. He has also outlived all players drafted in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Brady led the league in both passing yards (5,316) and passing touchdowns (43) in 2021, the second time in his career that he has led the NFL in both categories in the same season (2007).
Brady retires as the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards (84,520), passing touchdowns (624) and completions (7,263). Brady is retiring after 47 career playoff games, the most all time and 15 more than the next closest player, his former Patriots teammate Adam Vinatieri. His 318 appearances in the regular season are the seventh most of all time.
Brady had been trying to lead the Buccaneers to back-to-back Super Bowl titles, something no team had accomplished since Brady’s Patriots in 2003-04.
In 285 appearances with New England, including 283 starts, Brady went 219-64, plus 30-11 in the postseason and 6-3 in Super Bowls. He earned MVP honors with the Patriots in 2007, 2010 and 2017, though he didn’t win the Super Bowl in any of those seasons. Brady was MVP in Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX and LI with New England and LV in Tampa Bay.
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