WR Antonio Brown officially retires, as a Raider lol

FWIW, one of the long-time Pittsburgh radio hosts (to whom Brown donated $100K to during the host's daughter's cancer battle), says he was never the same guy personality-wise after the Burfict hit.

I don't think we'll ever truly know, and it was two more years before he truly seemed to go off the deep end. But it's a shame regardless, because his talent in that Steelers system was incredible to watch.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sp...ed-vontaze-burfict-hit-per-dunlap/4585756002/
He started to be someone who was afraid everyone was out to get him, he never smiled after that all that much - he became somebody different. He used to be innocently narcissistic, much like a lot of receivers in the NFL, but he didn’t have this dark side to him. And for me, every single incident, it all happened after the Burfict hit.

If you can’t see the trajectory that took a sharp spike right after the Burfict hit - and he has never recovered since then. That’s just all fact, the timeline: the everybody’s out to get me, the dark, never smiling. The guy used to smile all the time. ... When’s the last time you’ve seen AB happy? ... I think that the launching point for me is that AFC Wild Card game. I think it’s that, and I think his head is messed up from football.