Star wide receiver Antonio Brown is saying on Twitter that he “will not be playing in the NFL anymore.”
Brown’s statement, part of a series of tweets Sunday morning, comes just days after he was released by the New England Patriots, the third NFL team to give up on the volatile player in the last year.
His effective retirement comes after a woman who once trained Brown accused him of rape in a federal lawsuit filed in Florida. His attorney, Darren Heitner, posted a lengthy statement to his website, saying: “Mr. Brown denies each and every allegation in the lawsuit.”
Amid an NFL investigation into the trainer’s accusation, the Patriots released Brown on Friday after he played just one game with the team.
In other tweets on Sunday, Brown attacked several other NFL figures who have been accused of sexual misconduct.
In particular, he noted the solicitation arrest of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who pleaded not guilty to the charges. Brown also cited the NFL’s four-game suspension of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger — his former teammate — after Roethlisberger was accused of sexual assault in 2010. No charges were filed in that case.
“4 games for Big Ben crazy world I’m done with it,” Brown wrote Sunday.
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