ORLANDO, Fla. — Former UCF star linebacker Shaquem Griffin is retiring from professional football, he announced Wednesday in a first-person article published in The Players’ Tribune.
Griffin was selected in the fifth round of the 2018 NFL draft by the Seattle Seahawks where he reunited with his twin brother and former Knight Shaquill Griffin.
“Honestly, it’s still a little surreal,” Griffin wrote online. “After everything I’ve been through in my life — all the hard work, all the doubters — it’s almost unthinkable that I’m hangin’ it up and moving on from the game of football.
