Blake Martinez made a non-traditional career pivot after he suddenly retired from NFL in the middle of the 2022 season. Martinez, who was playing for the Las Vegas Raiders at the time, decided he would dedicate all of his time to the side hustle he started during the COVID-19 pandemic: buying and selling Pokemon cards.
Martinez told CNBC he decided to spend more time on his company after the Giants released him in September after two seasons in New York. Even though he still signed with the Raiders, Martinez said he spent 80 hours a week on his company in between his time with the team. A quarter of the revenue goes back into the business, Martinez said, while the rest goes to him and the company's 15 contract employees.
This is quite the difference between playing football — especially linebacker. Martinez wracked up 706 combined tackles over 84 total games during his seven NFL seasons. He even led the league with 144 tackles in 2017 and averaged 148.6 combined tackles from 2017-2020. But three weeks into the 2021 season, Martinez suffered a season-ending ACL injury and was released a year later.
So after seven years of hitting and ailments, Martinez said pain-free living played a big role in his desire to leave the NFL for his company. "Every single day when I wake up, my shoulder doesn't hurt and my back doesn't hurt anymore," Martinez said."When all that hurts are my fingers from opening, like, 1,000 packs of cards per day, I think, 'I'm going to keep doing this.'"
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