"I wish everybody could get everything they ever wanted to realize it's never going to be enough," former NFL tight end Darren Waller tells NPR.
"I've realized that firsthand."
Waller announced his retirement from football earlier this month, leaving the New York Giants with a $30 million salary for this year and next.
But the 31-year-old, who was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2015 and played for the Oakland Raiders, Oakland Raiders, and Baltimore Ravens over the next few years, says he's "still figuring out who those versions of myself are," per NPR.
"I have the version of me that's very emotional, very tender, very vulnerable," he says.
"But then I also have that competitive side of me that kind of got developed through sports that's like, I want to go at people's necks.
And that's what music has done for me."
Waller tells NPR he was "in full-blown addiction" at the time he was drafted, and he felt "this pit of fear in me when I got drafted."
He was suspended for four games in his second year with the Raiders after failing drug tests, but he got another chance with the Ravens and became one of the best tight ends in the Read the Entire Article
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