Before the third week of the NFL season, a former running back for the New England Patriots in 2022–2023 is scheduled to retire. Running back Ty Montgomery declared his retirement from the league in a post on his website. Montgomery expressed his desire to resign on his terms in writing:

“Being able to terminate things on my own terms and in accordance with my health has made it easier for me to accept retirement rather than procrastinate.” I’ve had the good fortune to play the game for a very long time, which has increased my excitement for potential future developments. I’m eager to discover my purpose and confidence outside of football, which the Lord is revealing to me,” Montgomery stated.

Montgomery was chosen by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 2015 NFL Draft. In 2016, he switched from being picked as a wide receiver—the position he played in college at Stanford—to running back.

Before concluding his career with the Patriots, Montgomery was a member of the New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens, and New Orleans Saints. Montgomery, 31, spent nine seasons as an NFL player. He made 92 appearances, starting 20 of them. He gained 1,187 yards and seven touchdowns on 263 rushes. With 147 receptions for 1,159 yards and four touchdowns, he set records.

Why the American sports story about Aaron Hernandez’s head injuries

A teenage Aaron Hernandez is shown in the Hulu/FX limited series American Sports Story taking a number of hard hits during his football career. American Sports Story debuted on September 17, 2024, on FX. The first two episodes provide viewers a rudimentary grasp of Aaron Hernandez’s difficult upbringing, turbulent family life, and fast track to become a Florida Gator and New England Patriot. In addition to Hernandez, a number of NFL players and coaches are portrayed in American Sports Story, including famed Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, wealthy owner Robert Kraft, and star tight end Rob Gronkowski.

The main actor in American Sports Story is Josh Rivera portraying Hernandez, a former NFL and college standout tight end who was found guilty in 2015 of killing semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. On June 17, 2013, Hernandez was found guilty of killing Lloyd, the boyfriend of his girlfriend’s sister. This was barely two months before Hernandez received a $40 million contract offer from the Patriots. Only a few days after Lloyd passed away, he was taken into custody on first-degree murder charges based primarily on circumstantial evidence. He was tried once more in 2017 for an unresolved double homicide case that occurred in Boston in 2012, following his life sentence in prison in 2015.