Blake Martinez back in NFL after retiring to sell Pokémon cards and running into trouble

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Blake Martinez back in NFL after retiring to sell Pokémon cards and running into trouble
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After an 11-tackle game with the Raiders in 2022, Martinez retired from football. Things took several unusual turns from there.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Veteran linebacker Blake Martinez was back in an locker room Tuesday, a year after his surprising retirement and three months after being accused of scamming customers in the following his abrupt departure from football. The signed the 29-year-old to their practice squad, and he went through a walk-through practice at Bank of America Stadium.

Last summer, during a lengthy interview with The Athletic about his retirement and the immediate success he’d enjoyed with Blake’s Breaks, his collectibles-selling company — at the time, Martinez claimed the company’s revenues had climbed past $11 million in just a year — he opened up about how fulfilling the transition had been. “I loved football,” Martinez said then. “But what I found out was I loved building and running my own team even more. “I could talk about Pokémon cards all day.

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