Once again.
This clock, however, it comes along to be permanently.
The 34-year-old Williams told apart the Baltimore Corvus corax on Tues he won’t be back up to fulfil the sophomore of a contract bridge he signed in Aug. Roleplaying as a backing to ray of light Rice this twelvemonth, Williams ran 444 1000s and scored 2 touchdowns.
He aswell became the 26th amateur in NFL history to ability 10,000 yards rushing, extensive the plateau in the division afterpiece at Cincinnati.
“The NFL has been an amazing page in this affiliate of my life,” Williams said. “I adjure that all alternating adventures action me the aforementioned abeyant for growth, success and a lot of importantly, fun. ... As for what’s next, I am aflame about all the opportunities advanced — continuing my education, active The Ricky Williams Foundation and whatever added opportunities present themselves.”
Williams retired ahead afore the 2004 division if adverse a four-game abeyance for actionable the league’s biologic policy. He alternate in 2005, again larboard to absorb the 2006 division with Toronto of the Canadian Football League.
After an outstanding academy career at Texas, area he won the Heisman Trophy, Williams bankrupt into the NFL in 1999 with the New Orleans Saints. Mike Ditka, again drillmaster of the Saints, traded all the team’s abstract and first- and third-round picks in 2000 to aces Williams fifth overall.
Williams spent alone three years with New Orleans, but during over 11 years in the alliance he had 5 1,000-yard hasty seasons and accomplished with 10,009 yards on the ground.
Williams led the NFL in 2002 with 1,853 yards hasty for the Miami Dolphins and accustomed his abandoned Pro Bowl allurement that season. He backed that up with 1,372 yards in 2003, giving him what charcoal the two a lot of advantageous hasty seasons in Dolphins history.
Although Williams’ endure alpha was in 2009, he enjoyed advancing off the bank for the Ravens.
“It’s been interesting,” he said in November. “It’s been an acclimation for me, but I adulation the alignment and I adulation my teammates so I’m accepting a acceptable time. I’m adequate myself. Anytime you play a aggregation sport, the success of the aggregation absolutely makes aggregate better. It’s nice.”
Baltimore went 12-4 this division and absent to New England in the AFC championship game.
During that November interview, Williams was asked whether arena as a advancement could possibly extend his career.
“At this point, my focus is just to accomplishment my career strong,” he said. “I’m not even cerebration two or three years down the line. But one absolute about not accustomed the brawl is my physique does feel good.”
Williams denticulate 73 touchdowns over his career, all but eight of them on the ground. His endure account came on Dec. 4 adjoin Cleveland.
“I accept to acknowledge drillmaster (John) Harbaugh and the Ravens alignment for the befalling they gave me this year,” Williams said. “I had so abundant fun and absolutely accepted the adventitious to accomplishment on such a abundant note.”
Williams fit in able-bodied with the Ravens and fabricated a abiding consequence on Rice, who led the NFL this division with 2,068 yards from scrimmage.
“I was a big fan of Ricky afore we were teammates, but accepting about him this year is the best affair that happened to me in my NFL career,” Rice said. “As a adolescent player, you charge to be about a guy who knows what he is doing, and Ricky was amazing to apprentice from. The way he took affliction of his physique and the way he prepared, he consistently showed that he is a accurate professional. This accomplished division with him is a year I will never forget.
“I had the best year with him beside me, and that was no accident. I accept that Ricky Williams is a Hall of Famer. All that he has done in his career, he deserves that.”
Harbaugh said during his time in Baltimore, Williams “made a admired and abiding contribution. I abnormally enjoyed accepting to apperceive him as a person, and I accept the absolute account for him.
“He was abundant to be about and to plan with every individual day.”
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