Johnny Manziel’s NFL profession didn’t precisely dwell as much as the hype he acquired in faculty, and one in all his former teammates noticed it coming.
The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner had his draft inventory fall whereas he continued to make troubling headlines on and off the sphere, and it didn’t cease after he bought drafted in 2014.
Chosen by the Cleveland Browns with the twenty second decide that 12 months, observers rapidly concluded his partying habits weren’t going to chop it within the NFL.
And a Corridor of Famer knew it virtually instantly.
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Quarterback Johnny Manziel (2) and left deal with Joe Thomas (73) of the Cleveland Browns stroll off the sphere within the fourth quarter of a sport in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium Dec. 14, 2014, in Cleveland. (Nick Cammett/Diamond Pictures by way of Getty Pictures)
Corridor of Famer Joe Thomas, who spent a portion of his profession blocking for Manziel, knew there can be “issues” earlier than he even took a snap.
“Properly, shortly after we drafted him, he vanished within the spring. We have been in the course of OTAs, and the coaches couldn’t discover him,” Thomas defined to Dan Patrick. “He’d come to Cleveland. He was there for like a day. He was at apply, after which he simply disappeared. And I feel he was simply on a bender someplace in Cleveland partying and he couldn’t discover his method again to the power.
“It was at that second I used to be like, ‘We may have some problems with this young rookie here if he can’t even discover his method throughout OTAs when he’s a rookie and he needs to be making an attempt to place his greatest foot ahead.”
Thomas mentioned he hasn’t watched the brand new documentary on Netflix’s “Untold” collection that featured Manziel, and he isn’t certain if he actually desires to. It’s not precisely a supply of leisure for him.
Left deal with Joe Thomas, middle, of the Cleveland Browns listens to a play name from quarterback Johnny Manziel within the third quarter of a sport in opposition to the Tennessee Titans Sept. 20, 2015, at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland. (2015 Nick Cammett/Diamond Pictures by way of Getty Pictures)
“I’m a little bit conflicted. … I’m undecided if I wish to watch it as a result of I lived it. And there are nonetheless a number of scabs I’m peeling off proper now after these Johnny Manziel moments. I’m a little bit bit torn,” Thomas mentioned.
Manziel admitted within the documentary he watched “zero” movie within the NFL,” and it “didn’t take [him] very lengthy to be in Cleveland to seek out out that [he] wasn’t going to be pleased there.”
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“I had each single factor that I might have ever needed. You’ve cash. You’ve fame. You are a first-round draft decide battling for a beginning quarterback place. And after I bought every part that I needed, I feel I used to be probably the most empty that I’ve ever felt inside,” Manziel mentioned within the documentary.
“I’d sit in my rental in Cleveland downtown and simply really feel prefer it was the one place that I might get away from everyone and something. And I’d look out these home windows day-after-day, and I simply felt empty. I went from one fishbowl metropolis to a different, and I needed nothing to do with soccer. I needed nothing to do with stepping on that area. And I had larger points in my life than having the ability to exit and play free-spirited, flowing soccer.”
Quarterback Johnny Manziel of the Cleveland Browns reacts after turning the ball over on downs in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in the course of the second half Dec. 27, 2015, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. (Peter G. Aiken/Getty Pictures)
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Manziel was ultimately launched by the workforce after failing to point out as much as its ultimate sport of the 2015 season after spending the night time partying in Las Vegas and lacking all return flights.
The Texas A&M alum has since frolicked within the Canadian Soccer League, the now-defunct American Alliance of Soccer and the Fan Managed Soccer League.
