Report: Lack of interest could force Jay Cutler into retirement
The market for free agent quarterback Jay Cutler just isn’t there, and he may have played his last game because of it.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport told Good Morning Football that nobody is interested in Cutler — and he may end up being forced into retirement as a result.
“I’ve had a lot of conversations with general managers or head coaches talking about where these quarterbacks are going to land and it is unbelievable that Cutler’s name rarely, if ever, comes up,” Rapoport said, via Kevin Patra of NFL.com.
Rapoport noted that quarterback-needy teams like the Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans simply have not shown any interest in the veteran.
“There’s really only a couple starting quarterback spots that are even available,” Rapoport noted. “The Browns would be one. I doesn’t seem like Cutler would be interested in going there. The Texans would be another. It doesn’t seem they have interest in him. So Cutler may face a similar situation, actually, to Tony Romo, which is to just chill, wait, and if something happens — some horrible camp injury, like what happened to Teddy Bridgewater last year — maybe Cutler’s name would be called. But I do know he’s talked to people that he knows pretty well about retirement being a possibility. He actually might have no choice.”
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard something like this. Cutler’s market is almost non-existent at this point, and there is no indication anything will change that anytime soon.
