Now ex-NFL QB tells dad prepare room

Quarterback Jake Locker retired from the Tennessee Titans and the NFL on Tuesday.

Locker, the eighth pick of the 2011 NFL Draft, made $12.5 million and played in 30 games in his four seasons. Though he lost his starting job in 2014 and was a free agent, his retirement announcement caught some by surprise.

Locker, 26, said he had lost "the burning desire necessary to play the game for a living" in a statement announcing his retirement.

Bob Condotta of The Seattle Times found Scott Locker, Jake's father, and got an idea of what Jake planned to do in retirement.

Locker lives in Ferndale, Wash., which is 16 miles from the Canadian border. According to Condotta, Locker plans to remodel his house (which he bought from his grandparents in 2011), spend time with his family and spend time at Locker Room Fitness, a local gym he bought with Tampa Bay Buccaneers punter Michael Koenen in 2014.

While his house is being remodeled, Locker is living in his childhood home with his parents, according to Condotta.

Scott Locker also offered Condotta further explanation for his son's retirement.

"For most of us, it would be a thing where you would probably continue to go down the path he was on," Scott Locker said. "But that's the difference between Jake and most people. He's got a way about him that's different.

"There will be a lot of people that will not agree with the decision that he's made. But you're got to be pretty proud of a guy that can stand up and say he's not feeling it anymore and able to walk away from it. It would have been easier to just come back and sign on with a team and play rather than make the tough call to say, 'I'm going to walk away and find myself something that makes me happier than this is, right now, anyway.' "

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