Teddy Bridgewater stepped away from the NFL this season to coach his alma mater, Northwestern Miami Senior High School. Now that he has led the team to the state championship, he has teased a return to the NFL.
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Bridgewater dropped the tease during a conversation with NFL insiders Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. They asked what his future held regarding coaching, but he took the conversation in a different direction with his answer.
"We'll see how these next week-and-a-half, two weeks play out, might be signing with an (NFL) team, then returning to coach high school football in February," Bridgewater said.
"That's the plan. My team knows that's the plan. We wanted to win a state championship and then coach go back to the league, see what happens and then come back February in the offseason, continue coaching high school football. We'll see how it plays out."
When pressed for details about the team he will join, Bridgewater shied away from leaking anything. He said once again "We'll see how it plays out."
Bridgewater spent last season with the Detroit Lions. He served as the backup to Jared Goff and did not appear in any games. He then left the NFL in February to become the head football coach at Northwestern Miami Senior High School, where he led the team to a 12-2 record and the championship.
The former Louisville Cardinals quarterback entered the NFL in 2014 as a first-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings. He went 17-11 as the starter and led the Vikings to the playoffs in 2015. However, the team fell in the first round after kicker Blair Walsh missed the game-winning field goal against the Seahawks.
A serious knee injury ended Bridgewater's time in Minnesota and he spent the next several years serving as a spot starter for the Saints, Panthers, Broncos, and Dolphins. He went 4-11 as a 15-game starter for the Panthers and then 7-7 as a 14-game starter for the Broncos.
Bridgewater, now 32, has thrown for 15,120 yards, 75 touchdowns and 47 interceptions while posting an overall win-loss record of 33-32.
