Anthony Herron

And I didn't even discuss it with my wife.

And, you know, wherever you're at at that point, when you've gotten to the point of playing in the National Football League, you've played professional football, you're approaching 30, when you've devoted your life to that endeavor, to trying to be the best version, to push your body to the limit as consistently as you can,

When you suddenly recognize, when you look in the mirror, or when you watch yourself on film and say, I just don't have it anymore, whether that is looking in the mirror and recognizing it mentally and emotionally, whether it is watching film and recognizing it physically, for every player, when you hit that point where you say, man, I just, I don't have it.

This isn't in me anymore.

It rocks you to your core.

And, you know, I was never a guy who was football or bust, but I was certainly a guy who put everything I had into being excellent at my craft.

And when you get to that point, it's a life-altering moment because if you haven't planned exactly for what's next or if it's happening sooner than you anticipate or if you are one of the blessed few who get to do it as long as you can dream of, at some point you're still going to be a young man and you're done with this endeavor.

And it was certainly a shock to my system.

And I look forward to hearing, if nothing else, just out of the curiosity of hoping that.

that Drew Dallman is in a good place mentally and emotionally with his decision, that he's in a healthy place about it.

Because I, like so many people, are curious kind of what led him to this point.

Is this what we would anticipate as the prime of his career physically and the comfort he has in this Bears offense and everything else?

I would imagine there's an explanation that will come at some point.

She was rather caught off guard as well.

You know, she had watched me that entire offseason rehabbing and preparing and working with trainers.

We moved to town, to the next city we were living in.

And then I got home and said, yeah, I hung him up.

And we had some deep conversations about it.

All right, what's next?

What's next?