Jenna Laine, ESPN Personnel Editor
TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers extensive receiver Mike Evans stated Wednesday that even though he knew former Texas A&M teammate Johnny Manziel were addressing his psychological condition, he hadn’t been acutely aware of the stage of the ones struggles.
In Netflix’s “Untold: Johnny Football,” Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy successful quarterback, stated his struggles culminated in an attempt to end his own life then happening a “$5 million bender.”
Evans instructed ESPN that he applauds Manziel for opening up about his studies in his documentary.
“I knew he was in a very dark place; I didn’t know about that,” Evans stated of the previous Cleveland Browns quarterback. “I care about him, but, you know, I didn’t know about his suicide attempt. That was news.”
Within the documentary, Manziel stated that then burning bridges with former coaches, teammates, related pals and population contributors, having misplaced endorsements, and refusing assistance for his substance abuse problems, he deliberate to spend all of his cash and tug his personal era.
“I had planned to do everything that I wanted to do at that point in my life,” Manziel stated within the documentary. “Spend as much money as I possibly could and then my plan was to take my life. Months prior, I went and bought a gun I knew I was going to use. I wanted to get as bad as humanly possible to where it made sense and it made it seem like an excuse and an out for me.”
Rather, Manziel stated, “the gun just clicked on me.”
Manziel additionally unfolded about dwelling with bipolar condition, with which he used to be recognized in 2017 and used to be self-medicating to manage.
“I thought it was very noble of him to do what he did, ’cause it takes heart to, like, admit a lot of that stuff,” stated Evans, including that “there’s nothing wrong” with in the hunt for assistance.
Evans stated he knew about the whole lot else Manziel divulged within the documentary. He watched it Tuesday evening when it got here out, and he seems in it time status nearest to Manziel all over the Texas A&M Corridor of Reputation inductions at Kyle Farmland endmost age.
The 2 retain involved off and on.
“I thought it was a good documentary,” Evans instructed ESPN. “I mean, there’s a lot of stuff that I knew about, questions answered for a lot of people.”
Evans stated Manziel had entered uncharted waters as a school freshman, all of sudden thrust into the nationwide highlight then successful the Heisman at while 20. Celebrities had been clamoring to satisfy him and to birthday celebration with him, and his off-field escapades, together with run-ins with the legislation, had been documented at each activate social media.
Manziel admitted to attractive in self-sabotage on account of his rising sadness with soccer when he were given to the NFL.
“People know — I mean, he’s a super-talented guy,” Evans instructed ESPN. “I mean, obviously his time, it came and gone — gone real fast — and that’s hard for people to deal with,” Evans instructed ESPN. “Especially, he’s like the first of his kind — a rock star [college] quarterback who’s hanging with all celebrities. Like, that’s like the first of his kind, so he was in a tough spot early on.”
