Lionel Messi has been letting his hair down while visiting a nightclub with wife Antonela Roccuzzo during a break in Inter Miami fixtures.

Former Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots wide receiver DeVante Parker announced his retirement earlier today. ESPN’s NFL Insider Adam Schefter was the first to break the news.

“I want to see my kids and spend quality time with them. I want to be there for them whenever I can”, Parker said. “ I’m just going to take things slowly.”

Parker would then thank the team that drafted him with the 14th overall pick nine seasons ago.

“I also appreciate the Dolphins for drafting me and giving me the opportunity. I always will have love for the Dolphins and their organization. And I want to thank all the teams, the Patriots and the Eagles, too. But the Dolphins were the first team, and I really want to thank them.”

Drafted in the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft, Parker never really lived up to his draft hype, battling an array of injuries throughout his nine seasons in the NFL. In seven seasons, he suited up for the Dolphins, where he started 64 games, catching 338 of 584 targets for 4,727 yards and 24 touchdowns. During his two seasons with the Patriots, he would catch 64 balls for 933 yards and three touchdowns. Parker signed a one-year, $4.69 million fully guaranteed deal with the Eagles earlier in the offseason.

He will now ride off into the sunset to spend quality time with his family. But for those Dolphins fans who have been supporting this team through the good times and the bad, DeVante Parker will be a wide receiver we never forget.

Enjoy retirement, DeVante Parker. You deserve it!

What are your thoughts on former Miami Dolphins wide receiver DeVante Parker? Do you have a favorite DVP moment? How did you feel when Roger Goodell called his name in April 2015? Let us know in the comments section below!

Jordan Poyer is now a member of the Miami Dolphins, but he was back in Buffalo this weekend for longtime safety partner Micah Hyde’s softball charity event.

A former draft pick of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins (at the time known as the Florida Marlins) as a high schooler, Poyer clearly knows how to swing a bat. He also knows the right things to say at a public event.

So it was that Poyer took to the microphone before stepping up to bad and expressed his gratitude to the Bills and their fans for the seven seasons he spent in Buffalo before he was released this offseason and subsequently signed with the Dolphins.

And this is where he made a comment that was met with cheers from those in attendance but might not play so well down in South Florida.

“For seven years, I played here and I loved every minute of it,” Poyer said. “I’m sorry we couldn’t get it done … but, y’all got the best quarterback in the league (he said while pointing his bat toward Josh Allen) … I know that might go viral, but that’s OK.”

 SHOULD POYER HAVE MADE HIS JOSH ALLEN COMMENT?

It’s perfectly understandable for a player to have a lot of love for his former team, something we’ve seen quite frequently expressed by Tyreek Hill when he talks about the Kansas City Chiefs.

And Poyer may or may not have been playing to the crowd with his comment about Josh Allen and it certainly was the right place and the right time to do it.

But the flip side is that Allen no longer is Poyer’s quarterback. Tua Tagovailoa is Poyer’s quarterback now.

So maybe Poyer could have expressed his support — even admiration — for Allen without having to call him the “best quarterback in the league.”

Since he got to the Dolphins, Hill has made it a point to sign Tua’s praises at every turn and it seems like that’s what one would expect a veteran newcomer — especially a high-profile one — to do.

Now, this isn’t to suggest that Poyer should be calling Tua the best QB in the league and maybe he does legitimately feel that way about Allen.

But could he not have praised his former QB in a different way? Did he need to make a comment that, like he said, he knew would go viral?

Just wondering.