NFL linebacker Sione Takitaki’s wife has opened up on the struggles of free agency for the wives and families of the league’s stars.
Takitaki was released by the Patriots three weeks ago following one season in New England. The franchise signed the 29-year-old as an unrestricted free agent from the Cleveland Browns last year.
And amid another offseason of uncertainty on his NFL future for both Takitaki and his family, his wife Alyssa has detailed the experience, claiming that they were ‘essentially homeless.’
‘The NFL free agency is crazy,’ she began in a TikTok shared Monday. ‘I don’t know where I’m going to live. I don’t know where I’m going to live! We’re essentially homeless… for now.’
‘But basically… free agency, they have teams calling,’ Alyssa continued, explaining the free agency process to her 13,300 followers.
‘You’re trying to figure it out. I have no idea where we’re going to be though, and it always happens this way where you think you’re going somewhere and then last minute… you’re actually going over here.’
NFL linebacker Sione Takitaki’s wife has opened up on the struggles of free agency
Alyssa Takitaki detailed the experience, claiming that the family was ‘essentially homeless’
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Alyssa, who shares newborn son Zion with the 6-foot-1 football player, admitted that uncertainty was part and parcel of NFL life.
‘It’s happened every time,’ Alyssa, who married Takitaki in 2016, recalled. ‘Even when my husband got drafted, all of the teams that we thought we were going to… no, no, no. In fact, when he got the call, he was in the bathroom… the story is just so insane.’
‘The only sure thing in the NFL is that it’s unsure,’ she quipped. ‘I don’t know where we’re going to be, but I can count on the fact that we don’t know where we’re going to be.’
‘I physically have to like slap myself when I start looking for homes or rentals on Zillow is just insane.’
Takitaki was taken by the Browns out of Brigham Young with the 80th overall pick in the third round of the 2019 Draft.
Throughout his six seasons in the league, Takitaki has played in 83 regular season games with 40 starts and has registered 258 total tackles, four sacks and two interceptions. In addition, he has played and started in three postseason games with 11 total tackles and 1 interception.
Last season with the Patriots, Takitaki played in 11 games with four starts and finished with 18 total tackles, and three special teams tackles.
