Eric Mangini brought news at today’s midday news conference of the retirement of a player he’d known and worked with since 2005.
“I spent a lot of time talking with Artrell Hawkins yesterday,” Mangini said of the 10th-year safety the Jets signed in February. “He just felt it was time for him to move on with the next phase of his life.”
Mangini recalled his initial thoughts of Hawkins when he arrived as a free agent with the Patriots in November of 2005.
