The holder of the NFL’s single season touchdown record, LaDainian Tomlinson, confirmed today what many had expected since the season ended. That he was done playing football. Or at least “pretty much done.” LT stopped short of an official retirement, but after early this offseason saying he was “95% retired” and that it would take the “right situation” for him to retire, you can basically connect the dots and assume that Tomlinson is done playing football. It’s very possible that Tomlinson, who turns 33 in June, didn’t get any takers after averaging 3.7 YPC last season over 75 carries with the Jets.

If he does, indeed, retire officially this season, he’ll do it as the NFL’s 5^th all-time leader in career rushing yards, with 13,684, and 3^rd all-time leader in career touchdowns with 162, which puts him only behind Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith. Tomlinson played 9 seasons with the Chargers and 2 with the Jets, with his best coming in 2006, when he set the all-time mark with 31 touchdowns in a season. If he does, in fact, retire this offseason, we can expect to see him entering the Hall of Fame in Canton in 5 years.