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ATLANTA — Falcons large receiver Calvin Ridley announced Sunday he has to “action absent from football at this time” to concentration on his mental health and fitness.
Ridley skipped his 2nd game of the year Sunday to offer with a personal make a difference immediately after also not touring to London for the team’s recreation towards the New York Jets on Oct. 10. He played against the Miami Dolphins final 7 days.
“These past number of months have been incredibly difficult and as significantly as I would like to be on the area competing with my teammates, I will need to move absent from football at this time and concentrate on my psychological wellbeing,” Ridley mentioned in a assertion on Twitter. “This will assistance me be the finest variation of myself now and in the foreseeable future.”
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— CALVIN RIDLEY (@CalvinRidley1) Oct 31, 2021
Falcons head mentor Arthur Smith declined to go into specifics about what Ridley is dealing with soon after his team’s 19-13 loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. He experienced realized of the receiver’s absence Sunday morning.
“Calvin’s dealing with one thing own,” Smith said. “And it is really going to continue to be own on my finish. Calvin’s assertion speaks for him, and so when we acquired in this article today, we talked and set him inactive.”
Ridley’s teammates expressed aid for him as he deals with his undisclosed private issue, as they did in the times after he failed to travel to London with the Falcons before this month.
“Surely wish Calvin all the best,” quarterback Matt Ryan said. “We really like him and aid him and he is a wonderful buddy and a excellent human being, so we all assistance him as he’s likely through this.”
Ridley, 26, has 31 catches for 281 yards and two touchdowns this time. He was existing at all of Atlanta’s tactics this week and was at a neighborhood event in the metropolis that was held by the workforce.
Ridley briefly reviewed the personalized difficulty when he spoke with the media on Oct. 21 — the previous time he talked with the media — but declined to get into depth about what he has been working with.
“I suggest, in present-day world, me individually, it shouldn’t issue, you should head your business enterprise,” Ridley stated about being familiar with why individuals would be intrigued in what is actually going on. “But in present-day globe, yeah, I do. To me, if I say it is private, that usually means it is particular.”
Ridley said then he thought it would be a brief-term problem.
The Falcons threw for 146 yards in Ridley’s absence, with veteran receiver Tajae Sharpe leading Atlanta’s receivers with 5 catches for 58 yards. Ryan qualified Sharpe, Mike Davis and Kyle Pitts 6 times each and every and Cordarrelle Patterson five instances. Ridley experienced been qualified 10 or a lot more periods in each of the previous 4 video games he played in.
“We are holding him in our prayers and any time a single of our brothers is hurting, we’re hurting as properly,” Sharpe reported. “So we truly feel for Calvin and are right here for him anytime he requires us and anytime he is ready to get back again to playing soccer.
“But clearly his mental health and fitness is range just one and the basic safety of his spouse and children and his health. So whichever he desires from us, we’re heading to assistance no make a difference what and we’re just likely to try out to do our occupation though he is absent until we can get him back.”
