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- Johnny Manziel has come to the realization a traditional pro football career isn’t in his future.
- The former Heisman Trophy winner reflects on his past as the Fan Controlled Football season approaches.
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Johnny Manziel will turn 30-years-old this year and hasn’t taken a snap in the NFL since 2015. His last stint in a traditional professional football league came in 2018 with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL.
With that being his reality, Manziel has completely come to terms with the fact that his traditional pro career days playing football are over.
He is still playing football, however. The former Texas A&M star is gearing up for his second season in the 7-on-7 league called Fan Controlled Football, a league he enjoys playing in.
“This is a way to go out and compete and have fun on a way smaller scale,” Manziel told ESPN. “I don’t have the drive to play football at a high level anymore. I don’t have a drive to be the best football player anymore that I used to have in my life, and I’m OK with that.
“I’ve come to terms with what my football career was, and what it is, and now I’m trying to figure out how I can stay entangled in the game, but from a different position.”
Johnny Manziel Seems Fine With Where He’s At Right Now, Which Is Cool
Manziel was a first-round pick in the NFL Draft less than eight years ago, for him to come to terms with knowing his future in football is to play in a league streamed primarily on Twitch is certainly a sign of maturity.
It’s clear that he’s done a lot of reflecting about his professional football career and the choices he made in the past.
“The more I look back on my life and continue to reflect and try to bury some things and put some things in the past, that’s one thing that I decided to do, was to let [football] go and let that be what it is. Life goes the way it goes sometimes.”
Manziel’s second season in Fan Controlled Football is set to begin on April 16 in Atlanta.