In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, the veteran of eight NFL seasons announced his retirement, ending a career that was one of the best in Colorado football history.
Polumbus is one of a handful of players -- including Dave Logan and Daniel Graham -- to play at the high-school, college and NFL levels for Colorado-based teams. He was a second-team All-Big 12 selection at Colorado in 2007, which was preceded by becoming a standout at Cherry Creek High School, just a few miles northwest of the UCHealth Training Center.
"When this journey began I was just hoping that I could make the team with extremely long odds in front of me as an undrafted rookie," Polumbus wrote in his Facebook message.