On Thursday, wide receiver Marvin Jones Jr. penned a letter on The Players' Tribune to his four children discussing the days following the sudden passing of his six-month-old son, Marlo, last December. In the process, he revealed that he considered retiring from the .
He wrote:
"It’s tough to talk about even all these months later, but after your little brother Marlo passed away in December….
"Daddy was ready to call it quits.
"Not just football, either. I’m talking just get away from...everything.
"Leave the country.