TAMPA, Fla. – Almost six weeks after announcing his retirement from the NFL, and on the eve of an NFL free agency that threatens to dismantle a Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ roster that was almost still completely intact last season from their 2020 Super Bowl championship, quarterback Tom Brady announced he will return to the NFL for a 23rd season for what he called “unfinished business.”
That business would include making another run at a championship after leading the NFL in just about every major statistical category at the age of 44 last season and coming within a breath of beating the eventual Super Bowl-champion Los Angeles Rams in the NFC divisional round before the Rams kicked a last-second field goal.