Rolando McClain retired at the age of 23. He's hoping to launch a comeback at 24.
The Carroll County Times
reported Monday, via a source close to the player, that McClain "is in a better place mentally," is working out regularly and has been telling people for months that he plans to return to football in 2014.
The trouble-prone linebacker signed with the
Baltimore Ravens last spring,
but retired shortly after an arrest for disorderly conduct. It was McClain's third arrest since entering the league as the eighth overall pick of the
Oakland Raiders in the 2010
NFL Draft.
After his retirement, McClain re-enrolled at Alabama and has spent time as a student assistant under Alabama coach Nick Saban.
"I admire the kid for coming back to Tuscaloosa, going to class and trying to get everything in his life outside of football situated," agent Pat Dye Jr.
said last September. "It's not my decision to come back or not come back. I think ultimately he wants to play again. He's only 24 years old.
He's talented. It's just a shame. It was such a great situation there in Baltimore."
The
Ravens retain McClain's contractual rights, but you wonder if general manager Ozzie Newsome will still be interested during a
Ravens offseason already
marked by legal troubles.
If Bennett is going to get 8 mill a year, it should drive down the price for the rest of the pass rushers in FA.
That's my trouble-making LB.
if we don't lock ATV up