“I miss it” – Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman drops truth bomb on potential NFL return

Julian Edelman
Tom Brady was the cause of heartbreak for the majority of NFL fans during his offseason. After the Buccaneers were ousted by the Los Angeles Rams, the 45-year-old legendary quarterback announced that he is retiring after a glorious 22-year-long career. But just after 40 days, Brady unretired saying that there’s some “unfinished business.”
Now it looks like, former New England Patriots wide receiver, Julian Edelman is looking to unretire like his former teammates, Rob Gronkowski and Brady. Will Edelman play for Brady and the Bucs or will he join the Patriots?
“I miss it more this year” – Julian Edelman might return to football this season

Julian Edelman retired from football after 12 years in the league citing injuries before the 2021 season. After Tom Brady joined Tampa Bay, speculations about Edelman joining his former QB began but the star wideout declined the rumors saying he was “a one-team guy”. Even Rob Gronkowski unretired at the behest of Brady and joined him in Florida and won a Super Bowl and has now decided to rest and never come back again.
Edelman had a great run with the Patriots and is widely considered to be one of the best WRs in the league. While the former 7th-round pick didn’t have much success during regular season games, he was a beast in postseason games. The entire league feared the Brady-Edelman combination in the postseason. He was the key contributor in three of the Patriots’ Super Bowl wins and was named the MVP of Super Bowl LIII.
And looks like the star wideout has started to miss football. While appearing on the Rich Eisen Show, Edelman addressed whether he would return to the playing field or not. “I miss it more this year than I did last year,” Edelman told Eisen on Tuesday. “I miss waking up in August, going to the field and smelling the fresh-cut grass, seeing the sprinklers just finished. Seeing our equipment guys just finishing setting all the stuff out. The locker room. The fellas. The competition.
“Now, being in my second year out, I can actually miss it because last year it was still ingrained in my head. That last year was rough. Football is not fun when you’re bruised — when you feel like (expletive).” The main reason Edelman quit football was due to his injuries. Now that he has two injury-free years under his belt, there might be a possibility of him returning if Brady and the Bucs come calling or any other Super Bowl winning caliber team knocks on his door.
“I’ll tell you right now, if I had three weeks, three maybe four weeks — beginning of the season, absolutely not,” Edelman said. “But if there’s a team vying for a playoff run, guy goes down. Could I get ready? I probably could. … You can never say never.”
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