It's been nearly five years since Johnny Manziel last took the field in an NFL game. And according to the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, that absence will continue indefinitely.
Manziel had brief stints in the CFL and AAF over the past couple of years as he tried to rejuvenate his failed professional football career, but Manziel has now conceded that his football days are in the past.
The former Cleveland Browns quarterback recently moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., where he has been playing golf daily and partying with friends in the Scottsdale nightclub industry. While returning to Texas for a golf trip, Manziel essentially admitted that he has moved on from football.
He said via The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: "In the past, probably, is the way I'd characterize it. I've finally got to a point where I'm trying to achieve happiness in life, not happiness on the football field.
"I know a lot of people probably want me to come back and play and give it another chance, but I don't know, as far as being a person and figuring out life as a young adult - trying to make it and figure it out - if I've ever been in a better place than I'm in right now. I can honestly say I'm happy and I'm doing the right things to try and put a smile on my face every day, and that means more to me than going out and grinding on a football field."
Manziel added that the characterization of being a "bust" doesn't bother him either.
"People can call me whatever they want," he says without animosity, "but at the end of the day, I'm proud of what I did. I'm proud of what I accomplished. I bettered myself. I bettered my family's life. I got a chance to play amazing college football, and it didn't work out in the NFL and that's OK."
Manziel was released by the Browns in 2016 after just two seasons in the league. During his tenure with the Browns, he spent time in a drug and alcohol treatment facility and was indicted on misdemeanor assault charges involving an ex-girlfriend. Those charges were eventually dismissed.
In the four-plus years since leaving the NFL, Manziel was banned by the CFL and left in limbo amid the AAF's sudden collapse. He went unsigned by the XFL before that league filed for bankruptcy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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