49ers running back Glen Coffee quits after one year

[Auggie]

sfgate.com / 8-13-10

In the strangest twist to this increasingly bizarre training camp, second-year running back Glen Coffee abruptly retired from the 49ers. Coffee met with head coach Mike Singletary this morning to express his intentions.

No reasons were provided and Coffee only spoke through a statement: "This has been a tough decision for me, but in this time of my life I feel it's best for me to move on from football. I appreciate what the 49ers, my teammates and coaches have done for me, and I wish them a blessed season and all the best in the future."

Singletary said he didn't try to convince Coffee to stay with the team. "I appreciate his honesty," Singletary said. "I appreciate him not going through the motions."

SNIP

Coffee is just the latest in a series of players dropping from the active roster. Linebackers Scott McKillop and Martail Burnett are out with knee injuries, starting center Eric Heitmann will miss the season opener and possibly more games with a broken leg, the team is now sometimes piping in music for afternoon practices. The team has already shuffled their offensive line with the decision to start rookies Mike Iupati and Anthony Davis at left guard and right tackle respectively, and now the main backup to their best offensive player, Frank Gore, has quit.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ninerinsider/detail?entry_id=70091&tsp=1

Coffee was a third round pick in 2009.

[Upton]

1. Big deal

Coffee didn't look that good last year anyway. Lets see what Dixon can do...he might be better suited to the backup role.

The whole thing is a little strange though.

[Auggie]

3. Yeah, in a way, big deal...

though none of the backs had great success behind that horrid o-line last year. Coffee added depth, of course -- and who knows what talents on Special Teams.

Strange. And appropriate for a Friday the 13th.

:hide:

[Upton]

4. I've been reading around about Coffee

nothing definitive, but the speculation is that he wants to go into the ministry.

[Auggie]

5. He should sign with the Saints

Yeah, cheap joke, I know...

[Auggie]

7. Good call, Upton. Dixon ran great Sunday.

[JonLP24]

2. It's his perogative n/t

[Forkboy]

6. I like Singletary's response a lot.

I hate phonies with a passion, and going through the motions is bullshit. Be what you are, and be true to yourself above all else.

I'd play for a guy like Singletary in a heartbeat.

[KamaAina]

8. Update: The would-be Rev is busted on weapons charges!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Recently-retired-Glen-Coffee-arrested-for-having

When former San Francisco 49ers running back Glen Coffee(notes) retired from the NFL this summer at the age of 23, he said it was because God told him to leave football and enter the ministry. He didn't mention whether or not he was supposed to accept his higher calling while carrying an automatic pistol.

Coffee was arrested in Florida on Friday morning for carrying a concealed firearm, according to TMZ. Police found the weapon cocked in his center console during a traffic stop.

The former NFL player had been pulled over for speeding in his 2008 Cadillac and was soon discovered to be driving a car without insurance or registration. When police searched the car before it was to be towed, they found the loaded weapon.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!!

[smoochpooch]

9. Posted on 49ers MB: "I heard he tried to run from the cops, but he only got 2.7 yards."

:-)

[Auggie]

10. ROFL

:applause: