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Darnell Dockett to announce retirement Monday
Josh WeinfussJul 25, 2016, 03:07 AM
Close- Josh Weinfuss is a staff writer who covers the Arizona Cardinals and the NFL at ESPN. Josh has covered the Cardinals since 2012, joining ESPN in 2013. He is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America and a graduate of Indiana University.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- One of the most outspoken players in Arizona Cardinals history will hang it up Monday.
Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett is expected to retire Monday, sources told ESPN.
The Cardinals have announced they will have a news conference at 2:30 local time Monday (5:30 p.m. ET). Cardinals president Michael Bidwill, Cardinals coach Bruce Arians and Dockett will be in attendance.
Dockett was cut by the Cardinals in February 2015, seven months after tearing his ACL during training camp in 2014. He signed with the San Francisco 49ers but was released before the regular season.
The 35-year-old Dockett will retire as one of the best pass-rushers in Cardinals history. His 40.5 sacks are seventh all time in the Cardinals' record book. He set a career high for sacks in a season with nine in 2007 and tied a Super Bowl record with three sacks in Super Bowl XLIII.
He was a three-time Pro Bowler and a second-team All-Pro in 20
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Cards under radar, but not Dockett's circus
The one and only Darnell Dockett has dived into the exotic pets market with both paws.
"My tiger ate Ruth's Chris yesterday," the Arizona Cardinals' defensive lineman told Mike Jurecki of Fox Sports 910 Phoenix.
Dockett has no plans to race his tiger and he certainly won't be joining the Tennessee Titans' Chris Johnson against a cheetah.
"I don't care who wants to race a cheetah," Dockett said. "There is no human on this earth that is faster than a cheetah. I'm not buying it."
Neither is the cheetah expert AFC South blogger Paul Kuharsky consulted on the subject.
Dockett said his young tiger weighs about 60 pounds and is playful.
What would drive someone to purchase a tiger, lion or similarly exotic beast? Peter Laufer, the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the Univerisity of Oregon, researched the subject for a book he wrote.
"It seems to come down to people who want to either draw attention to themselves or want to make a statement of how consequential they are," Laufer told NPR in 2010. "The types include the extraordinarily wealthy, the powerful (in an underground world) like drug dealers -- those who want attention in public, like the muscle men walking down South Beach in Miami with the Burmese python around their ne