Dolphins NT Jason Ferguson Announces Retirement

The Dolphins have had quite an offseason and not in a good way. Their players have been in the news far too often for off the field issues such as arrests. It’s certainly not the hallmark of a team run by Bill Parcells, who once famously said he didn’t want any “thugs and hoodlums” on his team.

SB Nation’s The Phinsider understands that and that’s why they point to Jason Ferguson’s leadership as the quality that will be missed most upon hearing the news of his retirement.

In March the NFL suspended NT Jason Ferguson eight games for violating the NFL’s performance enhancing drugs policy. The Dolphins somewhat surprisingly re-signed him just days later.

Now comes the surprising news that Ferguson has announced his retirement from football.

According to Yahoo! Sports, this was not the first time that Ferguson has been caught taking steroids.

Ferguson, 35, had 23 tackles in 2009 before suffering a quadriceps injury that required season-ending surgery.