Don’t expect these Romo returning to the NFL rumors to go away anytime soon.
It’s been a little bit over a week since Tony Romo announced his retirement from the NFL. The quarterback hung it up after a solid 14 seasons as a member of the Dallas Cowboys and is poised to become a broadcaster for CBS. With all that being considered, there’s no way Romo returns to play football again, right? Apparently the door isn’t completely shut on Romo playing in 2017 or beyond.
According to Cowboys beat writer Todd Archer, Romo has yet to file his retirement papers to the league and has no intentions of doing so any time soon either. Archer notes that the Cowboys did officially release Romo, which helped the team save over $14 million in cap space since it’s designated as a post post-June 1st cut.
Given Romo’s release and the fact that the Cowboys do not own his contract rights anymore, the quarterback would only have to inform the league of his plans to return to the field rather than deal with the Cowboys over the matter.
Depending on the provisions in Romo’s deal with CBS, he’s free to sign any where he wants. That team might be the Houston Texans.
According to Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman, a source has told him that there’s greater than a 60-70 percent chance that Romo suits up for the Texans in 2017.
Romo hasn’t officially closed the door publicly on a potential return to the game either.
"“I wish I could tell you unequivocally, 100 percent, for the rest of my life, I’ll never play any sports at all,” Romo said. “I don’t envision coming back. But I’ve also seen enough things, you know, from (coach Nick Saban’s) ‘I’m not going to Alabama’ to (Brett Favre’s) ‘I’m done playing football,’ that happen in life.”"
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We’ll see if Romo does shockingly suit up in 2017 or any year after that, but given the fact he’s taking time to file for retirement, it does make one wonder.