NFL record-holder Ryan Fitzpatrick reflects on why his journeyman career is something he would never change

When Ryan Fitzpatrick had his NFL dreams, helium wanted what each kid wanted.

Fitzpatrick was hoping to enactment with 1 squad for his full career, but arsenic helium precocious told Fox News Digital, "That conscionable didn't hap to beryllium my story."

Instead, Fitzpatrick holds the NFL grounds for starting for 9 abstracted teams and is the proprietor of galore different oddities erstwhile it comes to dressing for astir a 3rd of the NFL's organizations.

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New York Jets backmost Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) drops backmost to walk against the Tennessee Titans during the archetypal 4th astatine MetLife Stadium connected Dec. 13, 2015. (Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports)

"I ever wanted to play. So wherever I went, it was usually with the volition of becoming a starter and playing somewhere. Then inevitably idiosyncratic would get drafted, and I would determination connected and spell play determination other due to the fact that I was a feline that enjoyed being retired determination connected the tract and not sitting connected the seat watching," Fitzpatrick said. "So that was conscionable the mode I was going to beryllium capable to bash that, was to support moving from squad to team."

It was surely an unorthodox career, and Fitzpatrick is the explanation of a "journeyman," arsenic helium played for the Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, St. Louis Rams, Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans, and Washington Commanders.

But "I wouldn't alteration it for the world."

"A batch of it was the magnitude of teammates I was capable to have, but it was besides the travel that I was capable to spell connected with my woman and with my kids, and each the chill radical that we met extracurricular of football," Fitzpatrick said.

Miami Dolphins backmost Ryan Fitzpatrick celebrates his winning touchdown walk to Mike Gesicki successful the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, successful Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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"Our neighbors and friends, determination are relationships successful each metropolis that we'll support forever. So, yeah, I deliberation erstwhile radical get drafted, they each person the conception that they're going to beryllium with the aforesaid squad for their full career. That conscionable didn't hap to beryllium my story. I wouldn't alteration it for thing due to the fact that I perfectly loved each 2nd of it."

Those relationships person helped Fitzpatrick disconnected the field, arsenic helium volition again beryllium 1 of the galore celebrities teeing it up astatine this month's American Century Championship successful Lake Tahoe. This year, helium teamed up with Performance Golf to little his handicap by a fewer strokes successful hopes of being adjacent the apical of the leaderboard.

"The American Century is truthful overmuch fun. It's a large radical of guys and girls that are retired determination playing, and it truly conscionable feels similar household due to the fact that everybody comes successful each year," Fitzpatrick said.

Ryan Fitzpatrick looks connected from the TNF connected Prime acceptable anterior to an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans astatine NRG Stadium connected Nov. 20, 2025 successful Houston, Texas. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

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"You get to walk the clip together, and that's however it is with the play course. It's conscionable a small spot antithetic of a play tournament, A, due to the fact that we're not each large golfers, but B, due to the fact that of the interactions that we get to person with the fans passim the tournament. That's astir apt my favourite part."

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