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Former Arizona Wildcat Rob Gronkowski retires from NFL for second time

Don’t expect another Gronk encore performance.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski announced Tuesday he is retiring from the NFL for the second time. In announced his retirement, Gronkowski shared a goal he wrote for himself as a student at the University of Arizona.

“In college, I was asked to write about a dream job opportunity that I wanted to pursue and where the location would be. Every time I had to write about my future, no matter what, I picked being a professional football player. For that assignment though, we had to pick the location.