NFL Insider Drops Prediction When Rob Gronkowski Might Return If He Ends Retirement

Rob Gronkowski sure knows how to keep people talking. First, he didn’t want to say anything about his retirement plans, and announced his decision a bit late. He is doing the same thing again. Everyone is talking about Gronk will return to the field, and he doesn’t say a thing.

When will Gronk come back? Will he ever come back? ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio seems to have an answer.

Florio said that he believes the chance of Gronkowski unretiring is “slightly north of 50.”

“I think that October, November is really the period to watch,” Florio said. “Remember, Week 13 is the deadline, the ultimate deadline for him to come back, to emerge from the reserve retired list and play for the Patriots this year. He has until I think it’s the Tuesday after Week 13, that is the drop dead date.

“The other question is will Bill Belichick welcome him back? I have wondered whether or not Belichick would say we don’t want to go down that path, we don’t want to create this precedence, we don’t want to give veteran players a way to avoid all of the grunt work and then just show up and take part in the glory. But, I don’t think Belichick will get hung up on that because it’s Gronk. Maybe for somebody else he would, but not for Gronk.”

Things are getting really interesting in the league. Gronk brings life to parties, and this one will be his greatest party.

“Until he has some other project that will contractually prohibit him from saying, ‘Hey, I am going to play football for the rest of the year’ I think it’s still in play,” he said. “… I think this the new reality, this year, next year and the year after we’re going to be talking and thinking and wondering whether or not he’s going to come back, even if he doesn’t come back this year we’re still going to be wondering. I think as long as (Tom) Brady is there there’s going to be that chance he comes back.”

The Patriots can’t wait to see Gronk back on the field.

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