Panthers WR Robby Anderson: I 'was losing my love for football' with Jets

Carolina Panthers wide receiver Robby Anderson completed his first season with the franchise after spending the first four years of his career with the New York Jets. The 27-year-old had a breakout year in 2020, and it wasn't a surprise.

Anderson recently called his decision to sign with the Panthers "one of the best decisions I made." He also described how playing for the Jets managed to rip away his love for football.

"I just felt like a sense of peace being [with the Panthers]," Anderson said, according to Alaina Getzenberg of the Charlotte Observer. "It was times when I was in New York that I honestly, I just didn’t, I felt like I was losing my love for football. It was days I wouldn’t even want to go to the building like I didn’t like feeling like that ... there was just a lot of things. I just wasn’t genuinely happy there all the time. And in Carolina, it just felt like a new breath of air for me and I just (felt) at a real peace, I felt comfortable. Like I actually liked Charlotte. I was excited to go to work every day and get better and just enjoy even though things weren’t always 100% how we would want them to be, but I still was happy being there and still enjoyed it.”

Anderson finished the season with 95 receptions for 1,096 yards and three touchdowns. It was the first 1,000-plus yard season of his career.

The Temple product has one year remaining on his contract with the Panthers at $12 million.