Edelman retiring after run with Pats

BOSTON — For more than a decade Julian Edelman lived the ultimate NFL underdog story, going from undersized college quarterback to a favorite option of Tom Brady on three Patriots’ Super Bowl-winning teams.

He says he’ll leave the league after giving everything he had to the sport.

Citing a knee injury that cut his 2020 season short after just six games, Edelman announced Monday that he is retiring from the NFL after 11 seasons.

“Nothing in my career has ever come easy. And no surprise, this isn’t going to come easy either,” Edelman said fighting back tears in a video posted to Twitter. “I’ve always said I’m going to go until the wheels come off. And they finally have fallen off.“

Earlier in the day, the Patriots terminated the contract of the Super Bowl LIII MVP after the receiver failed a physical.

It brings an abrupt end to the 11-year New England tenure of the 34-year-old, whose fingertip catch helped complete the Patriots’ historic Super Bowl LI comeback win over the Atlanta Falcons.

Ex-chiefs assistant Reid charged: Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was charged with driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury after a crash that left a 5-year-old girl critically injured.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office said Reid’s blood alcohol content shortly after the Feb. 4 crash was 0.113, above the legal limit of .08. He also was driving about 84 mph in a 65 mph zone seconds before his truck crashed into two cars stopped on an entrance ramp near Arrowhead Stadium.

A 5-year-old girl in the second car, Ariel Young, suffered a traumatic brain injury. She was released from the hospital April 2 but is unable to talk or walk and is being fed through a feeding tube.

Reid, the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, could be sentenced to up to seven years in prison if he’s convicted. He surrendered to police and was released after posting $100,000 bond.