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Ihedigbo: 'I plan to be playing football' in '16

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James Ihedigbo lost his starting job with the Detroit Lions late last year and was told by the team early this off-season that he didn't fit into their plans for 2016, but the veteran safety said today that he's not yet ready to retire from the NFL.

"If I was retiring, I would have said I was retiring," Ihedigbo said during a break from the NFL's broadcast bootcamp, where he joined 24 other current and former players for a four-day workshop at NFL Films studios in New Jersey. "I plan to be playing football this year and I will be.