was headed to Canada to hopefully breathe life into his profe sional career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, according to , but decided against it because the terms of the deal could have kept him in Canada for two
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years, meaning he wouldn't have been able to sign with an until 2019, reports .It's been just over a year since Richardson was last in an NFL training camp. He by the on Aug. 6, 2016, three months after signing with them, making Baltimore Richardson's fourth since the drafted him third overall in 2012. He last played a regular-season game in 2014. The Ravens cut Richardson last August because of a pre-existing knee
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injury that flared up during offseason workouts. At the time, Ravens coach John Harbaugh defended Richardson, who has battled weight i sues through his profe sional career, saying there's
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"still an opportunity him to come back in the future." That opportunity never materialized, and Richardson spent the 2016 season out of work. So how did things go sideways so quickly for Richardson, who starred at Alabama, once he reached the NFL? He explained in March 2016 that there was none of the structure in Cleveland that he had in Tuscaloosa, and it proved to
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be too much for a 22-year-old to handle. "It's very easy to get lazy in the NFL -- not having everything scheduled and not having everything like at Alabama where it was so structured," Richardson said at the time. "We had study hall or we had to get a workout in in between cla
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ses and had five cla ses a day. It was just so structured. In the NFL, everything's on your own." Now Richardson is 27 and is still looking to jump-start a profe sional career that never got on track.
