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Thursday morning, former Chargers linebacker Kyle Emanuel took to twitter to
announce his retirement from the NFL.In his statement, he doesn’t cite any
specific reason that led him to this decision
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health.Emanuel became a free agent following the 2018 season and the Chargers
showed zero signs of interest in bringing him back for next season.Emanuel was
selected in the fifth round (153rd overall) of the 2015 NFL Draft out of North
Dakota State University. In college, Emanuel won four-straight FCS National
Championships with the Bison and was the recipient the Buck Buchanan Award,
given to the nation’s top defensive player at the FCS level
Drue Tranquill Jersey Color Rush , following his senior season.He made his first career start in the 2015 season-opener against the Detroit Lions where
he went on to record three total tackles, including his first career sack and
interception in the team’s 33-28 victory. The Vikings have run through a number
of kickers during head coach Mike Zimmer’s tenure as the team’s head coach and
the common thread between them has been a penchant for missing important
kicks.That led Zimmer to say in February that the team was in the market for a
coach who would work with the kickers on ways to reverse that trend. The Vikings
found their man in a former NFL kicker.Former Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding has
joined the team on a part-time basis. He was at Wednesday’s organized team
activity working with Dan Bailey.“Nate’s done it before,” special teams
coordinator Marwan Maalouf said
Mens Drue Tranquill Jersey , via the . “So that’s somebody that you can trust and that’s experience that you can’t find just with any coach. So we’ve been
lucky. He’s local. It only takes him a few hours to get here. He’s with us a few
days a week. Communicates consistency through emails and video.”Kaeding had a
lot of success during his nine-year career, including a selection to the All-Pro
first team in 2009. He also knows what it is like to have big misses as he was
8-of-15 on field goals in the postseason over eight appearances with the
Chargers.The Vikings will be hoping that his instruction leads to more of the
former than the latter.
