Fire TO's Career Continuing

More TO? Oh, no. (Getty)

After it was revealed that former Bengals WR Terrell Owens had surgery to repair a torn ACL in April, his agent, Drew "Next Question" Rosenhaus, said TO is not retiring and will be ready to go when the NFL season starts (or as early as August). There's no way he'll be recovered by then and he should retire.

Rosenhaus said: "The old injury has been repaired. He is many months into recovery and doing fantastic. No predictions on training camp, but he comes back fast from injuries. I won't rule him out of anything. He will be a starting receiver for someone this year."
 

Since when is two months of rehab "many months into recovery"? That logistical silliness aside, few players ever have recovered from this surgery in five months as TO would have to do to be ready in August. About the only football player to recover from this injury in under 8-9 months was fitness freak Jerry Rice, who recovered from a torn ACL in 3.5 months in 1997 but re-injured his leg in his first game back and missed the rest of the season. More recently, Patriots mighty mite WR Wes Welker tore his ACL and MCL in January 2010, and though he made it back for the start of the 2010 season, he admitted to being less than 100% in September. And let's not forget that TO went on IR in late December due to a torn meniscus.

TO doesn't have a team. TO will turn 38 during the 2011 season. He played considerably better in 2010 than he did in 2009, but 2009 was the worst season of his career. He has a bit left and he probably does want to play. He may even find a team willing to give him a shot since he seems to be less of the locker-room cancer that he once was. But given his history and the overwhelming numbers of young WRs looking to make a name for themselves, why should anyone bother with TO? Owens may not retire voluntarily, but there's no way he'll be ready to go in September (if the NFL is even ready to go then), and by the time he is ready it could be too late for him to do anything in 2011. He should walk away and his agent should go away.