After suffering a serious injury Seattle Seahawks Receiver Ricardo Lockette forced to retire since the Serious Fall Ends Seattle Seahawks Ricardo Lockette NFL Career!!!
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CelebNSports247.com remembers when Seattle Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette fell to the turf in Dallas and didn’t move last season, well the fall was extremely serious and he can no longer play in the NFL.
The falls has officially ended Seattle Seahawks Ricardo Lockette NFL Career. The soon to be 30-year-old will be able to celebrate his birthday May 21. He announced his retirement on Wednesday. It’s a hard hit since Lockette worked himself onto the Seahawks’ roster as an undrafted free agent, only to have his career end on one of the most devastating hits in recent NFL history, said NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
ESPN reports:
Standing between his mom, Felita, and his dad, Earl Sr., Lockette faced the wall for a few moments to compose himself before turning around and watching with everyone else.
The room was filled with Seahawks employees, including many of Lockette’s former teammates and coaches. When he walked in, he saluted his teammates and shouted, “We all we got!”
“We all we need!” they yelled back.
After suffering a devastating injury last season — on Nov. 1 in Week 8 against the Dallas Cowboys — Lockette announced his retirement Thursday afternoon.
“I have titanium plates in my neck.”
“The vertebrae that’s connecting my skull to my spinal cord, that was detached. The one under that, 1 through 4. So I have two plates connecting the 4. That was pretty much it. There’s nothing I could do with that. The way I play … a lot of guys have surgery like that, but they play quarterback. Like Peyton Manning. Someone else had it. But they don’t fly down there like a missile and run into people and have to go across the middle and stuff like that. I didn’t want to play the game like that. Especially only with 50 percent rotation. That kind of had a lot to do with it.”
Ricardo Lockette also talked about the surgery he had on his neck.
“The vertebrae that’s connecting my skull to my spinal cord, that was detached.”
Lockette said he talked to Heath that night before he went into surgery.
“I said, ‘Heath, I respect you. You’re a great player. I watched you all week. I studied you and looked forward to playing you … it was an honor.'”
“I feel like he is a warrior. And I told him, ‘Keep playing with the same passion, keep playing with the same passion. Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine.'”
Lockette, who will turn 30 on May 21, doesn’t blame Heath. Instead, he wonders if there’s something he could have done differently on the play.
“I feel like if I could have knocked that dude down quicker that was distracting me, then there would have been no blind side.
“Or if I would have just ran through him and sped off, then he couldn’t have caught me. There was always something I could have done.”
We are happy that Ricardo Lockette didn’t end up paralized from the hit and we understand the frustration of no longer being able to play, but maybe he can parlay it into working as a comentator or working in sports off the field.
We wish Ricardo Lockette the best and stay healthy man.
