Teddy Bridgewater ended his NFL career last year and is currently a successful high school coach. But the 32-year-old is flirting with a comeback.

In the NFL, Teddy Bridgewater was signed by several teams, but was repeatedly sidelined by serious injuries and rarely able to fulfill his true potential.

After the 2023 NFL season, the now only 32-year-old ended his official career. But he didn’t want to turn his back on football completely.

Shortly after his retirement in February, his former high school, Miami Northwestern Senior High, announced that it had hired him as the head coach of its football team.

Just ten months later, Coach Bridgewater’s Bulls were crowned Class 3A High School Champions in the state of Florida. In the final, Miami Northwestern defeated the previously unbeaten Raines Vikings by a clear margin of 41:0.

The sense of achievement seems to inspire Bridgewater. And to rethink the end of his career.

Bridgewater is toying with an NFL comeback

In an interview with NFL insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero, Bridgewater revealed that he wants to try again in the NFL:

“That’s the plan, and my high school team knows that too. We wanted to win the title and then I wanted to go back to the NFL as a coach myself. In February, I would take over the team again in the offseason. It would be a good fit. Let’s see how the next week or two goes, maybe I’ll sign somewhere.”

On The Insiders, here is Teddy Bridgewater dropping the news that he plans to make a return to the NFL now that his HS state title is locked in. pic.twitter.com/6XvfT5Zri8

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 18, 2024

However, there is probably no specific contact with a particular NFL team yet. In 2014, Bridgewater was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings. He went on to play for the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins and Detroit Lions.

Serious knee injury

He played in 79 NFL games, 65 of them as a starter. His record is 33-32, he threw for 15,120 yards, 75 touchdowns and 47 interceptions.

The turning point in his tragic career was a serious knee injury he suffered in 2016 at the Vikings’ training camp, which sidelined him for a year and a half. His attending physician, Dan Cooper, gave ESPN a vivid account of the severity of Bridgewater’s injury.

“It’s mangled. You make the incision on the knee and there’s just nothing there. It’s almost like a war wound. Everything is blown up. It’s probably the worst knee dislocation I’ve ever seen in sports without there being a nerve or vascular injury.”