RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks linebacker Mychal Kendricks is eager to get back to the normalcy provided by life on a football field.
Kendricks, 28, is returning from an eight-game suspension due to violations of the NFL's personal conduct policy stemming from guilty pleas to insider trading charges in September. Kendricks pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
"This is my escape," Kendricks said Saturday. "Football is everything for me, and to have lost that also was very hard. That also was probably the hardest thing, having to walk away from the game that I love, from a team that has accepted me.