Max Unger talks about his decision to retire

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“At the end of the day, I guess I’m retiring because I didn’t think I could make it through another season. I’ve got some health issues and you kind of evaluate how you’re playing and where you see life after football going. And I just made the decision to retire.

“I’ve had some kind of long-term issues that I’ve had to do a lot of maintenance on, lower-body issues, stuff that just bothers me getting into a stance. There’s a doctor that I’ve been in touch with for the last couple of years and he recommended that I do a surgery.

“That would take pretty much all of the offseason and going into Year 11, I couldn’t do that. I’ve known about this for a little while, it’s just kind of been a maintenance issue. But at the end of the day, I’ve done a surgery (foot surgery, in 2017) which took me out for the whole offseason. It didn’t go very well – not the surgery, just my play. To do that going into Year 11, I didn’t think was going to work out.”

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