Just nine days after announcing his retirement from the NFL, former New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman has announced major-post football plans.Edelman, a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots, tweeted Wednesday that his Boston-based production company, Coast Productions, is teaming up with Viacom CBS to make movies, shows and documentaries. Those projects will air on networks such as Showtime, Nickelodeon and Paramount+.The 34-year-old also revealed that he will be joining the cast of Showtime’s Emmy Award-winning studio show “Inside the NFL.” Edelman previously partnered with Showtime in 2019 on a biographical documentary titled “100%.””Yalla, let’s get to work,” Edelman tweeted Wednesday.On April 12, Edelman announced that he was retiring from football due to a lingering knee injury.The Super Bowl LIII MVP was a seventh-round draft pick of the Patriots in 2009 and was with the organization for all 12 seasons of his professional career.Edelman finished with 620 catches for 6,822 yards and 36 touchdowns in 137 career regular-season games. He also hauled in 118 receptions in the playoffs for 1,442 yards. Both of those postseason marks are Patriots franchise records and rank second only to Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.Patriots owner Robert Kraft, head coach Bill Belichick and his longtime teammate, Tom Brady, all praised Edelman for his work on and off the field in New England shortly after he announced his retirement.Edelman asked to be “beamed up” from Gillette Stadium to close it out in the retirement announcement video he shared on April 12, and he paid off that joke in a video he shared with his post-retirement announcement. In Wednesday’s video, Edelman showed that he was beamed to the Paramount Pictures studios in Los Angeles.
Just nine days after announcing his retirement from the NFL, former New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman has announced major-post football plans.
Edelman, a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots, tweeted Wednesday that his Boston-based production company, Coast Productions, is teaming up with Viacom CBS to make movies, shows and documentaries. Those projects will air on networks such as Showtime, Nickelodeon and Paramount+.
The 34-year-old also revealed that he will be joining the cast of Showtime’s Emmy Award-winning studio show “Inside the NFL.” Edelman previously partnered with Showtime in 2019 on a biographical documentary titled “100%.”
“Yalla, let’s get to work,” Edelman tweeted Wednesday.
On April 12, Edelman announced that he was retiring from football due to a lingering knee injury.
The Super Bowl LIII MVP was a seventh-round draft pick of the Patriots in 2009 and was with the organization for all 12 seasons of his professional career.
Edelman finished with 620 catches for 6,822 yards and 36 touchdowns in 137 career regular-season games. He also hauled in 118 receptions in the playoffs for 1,442 yards. Both of those postseason marks are Patriots franchise records and rank second only to Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft, head coach Bill Belichick and his longtime teammate, Tom Brady, all praised Edelman for his work on and off the field in New England shortly after he announced his retirement.
Edelman asked to be “beamed up” from Gillette Stadium to close it out in the retirement announcement video he shared on April 12, and he paid off that joke in a video he shared with his post-retirement announcement. In Wednesday’s video, Edelman showed that he was beamed to the Paramount Pictures studios in Los Angeles.
