Reggie Bush sees the writing on the wall.
The veteran running back admitted that his NFL career will be over provided no one picks him up in 2017, a scenario which looks increasingly likely.
“I’m done,” Bush told NFL Network, via Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk. “I’m done. I said it. It’s not breaking news. I’ve been saying it. I said it all season, I said, ‘Listen, if I don’t play this year, I’m going to retire.’ Because I’m not going to spend a whole year off, come back, 33 years old, trying to get back in the league. Listen, once you get to a certain age as a running back, they just start to slowly weed you out.”
Bush added that he has every intention of retiring as a member of the New Orleans Saints, the team that drafted him — and where he found the majority of his success.
“The Saints know I’m coming home at some point,” Bush said. “I’m going to come home to retire as a Saint. But yeah, man, I’m done. For sure. I’m done.”
Bush had planned to play in 2017, but the interest simply hasn’t materialized. That doesn’t seem likely to change with the season inching to a close.
