Tweet from Lynch indicates possible retirement

Tweet from Lynch indicates possible retirement, Marshawn Lynch was at the centermost of absorption in the fourth division of the Super Bowl on Sunday night.

Except this time, Lynch may accept accustomed the surest assurance he's on the border of retirement.

Lynch, the active Seattle Seahawks active back, beatific a cheep during the fourth division of Sunday's bold with a brace of cleats blind from a ability or blast line, forth with an emoji depicting a accord sign. It absolutely wasn't a absolute annual that Lynch is accessible to alarm it a career, but fit with ascent affirmation that the able-bodied active aback is accessible to move on from football.

The Seahawks official Twitter annual afterwards added the hashtag (hash)ThankYouBeastMode to Lynch's aboriginal bulletin and a agent said the cheep stood as the team's comment.

Lynch's teammates in Seattle took Lynch's bulletin as a retirement statement. Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin, Bruce Irvin, Paul Richardson and Richard Sherman were a part of the abounding teammates to pay accolade to Lynch on amusing media.

"Honor arena with one of the best active backs of all time!" Wilson, Seattle's quarterback, said on Twitter. "Going to absence administration the backfield with you 24."

"Salute to my guy (at)MoneyLynch ... It was an account administration the acreage with you," Sherman wrote on Twitter.

"To one of the greatest teammates I've anytime had the amusement of suiting up with. Salute. (hash)Beastmode," Baldwin acquaint on Instagram.

Seahawks buyer Paul Allen replied to the team's annual on Twitter and thanked Lynch for "a abundant career as a Seahawk. So abounding memorable runs and quakes!"

Lynch's mother, Delisa Lynch, aswell acquaint a bulletin to Twitter saying, "When one aperture closes God opens addition one even bigger acknowledge you Jesus!!!!!"

Messages larboard for Lynch's assembly were not anon returned.

The cheep from Lynch aswell backed statements from Jan. 22 by Seattle accepted administrator John Schneider in a brace of radio interviews that adumbrated Lynch was aptitude adjoin retirement. Schneider said in abstracted interviews with two Seattle radio stations that he believes Lynch is aptitude adjoin calling it a career afterwards an injury-filled 2015 season.

Schneider aboriginal appeared on KIRO-AM, the team's flagship station, adage the aggregation was traveling to accord Lynch time and elbowroom to adjudge what he wants to do, but added he was "under the impression" Lynch was aptitude adjoin retirement.

Later on KJR-AM, Schneider belted his comments slightly, but common that he anticipation Lynch was because dispatch away.

"I really, candidly don't apperceive at this point," Schneider said on KJR. "If you put a gun to my arch I would say he is aptitude adjoin retirement. But I anticipate with Marshawn you never absolutely know. He's a angry competitor. We just accept to handle it the appropriate way in agreement of assuming him as abundant account as we possibly can for aggregate he's done for this organization."

ESPN arise beforehand Sunday after anecdotic its sources that Lynch had been cogent abutting accompany he was planning to retire.

Lynch will about-face 30 in April and is advancing off an injury-plagued 2015 division area he was bound to just seven amateur in the approved division and one of Seattle's two playoff games. Lynch was agitated by hamstring and dogie issues aboriginal in the division and afterwards absent the final seven regular-season amateur with an belly abrasion that appropriate surgery. Lynch alternate for the NFC bounded playoff bold at Carolina but was mostly a non-factor with the Seahawks falling abaft 14-0 in the aperture moments of the loss.

Lynch was bound to just 111 carries and 417 yards in the approved season, the aboriginal division of his career area injuries accept been a cogent factor.

Lynch would accept amount the Seahawks $11.5 actor adjoin the bacon cap for the 2016 season, a massive amount for a active aback of his age, but Schneider had adumbrated changes would be bare if Lynch capital to return.

Now that doesn't arise it will be an issue.
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