NFL alum Sean Considine is a member of a select group of players whose final game appearance in the league was as a member of a winning Super Bowl team.
Considine played all 16 games for the Baltimore Ravens in his final 2012 regular season and then was an outstanding special teams player a month later when the Ravens defeated the 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVIII.
Winning a championship in his final game was nothing new for Considine. When he was a senior, his Byron High School team won the Illinois state title. He moved on to attend the University of Iowa and that team won the Big Ten Championship game in his college finale.
After the Super Bowl victory, Considine and his wife Nicole decided it was time to settle down and return to his hometown of Byron, Illinois. Playing in the NFL was something that he had not planned to do during his high school and early college days. However, he was drafted as a defensive back out of Iowa as a fourth-round choice of the Eagles in 2005. After four years in Philadelphia, he moved around to the Jaguars, Panthers, and Cardinals before ending his 8-year career in Baltimore. That was enough travelling for a couple who had four children (including young triplets) and another child on the way.
When the family returned home, Considine did some of the things for the first few years that he did not have a chance to address while he was playing. He built a new house, started a non-profit helping to fight childhood cancer, and got reacquainted with his neighbors in the small town of Byron (population 4,000). He and a friend started a high quality, select meat delivery service before he joined Byron Wealth Management in his hometown in 2019.
“When I was a kid, we had a teacher who taught us how the stock market worked and we used fake money to buy and sell stocks in class,” Considine recalls. “I used to say then I wanted to be a stockbroker when I got older. When I made it to the NFL and got paid a decent sum of money at the start of my career, I began working with financial planners and wealth management groups. My current position has been a nice fit for me. Technology has made it much more accessible to investors. It allows me to live in a small town but also scale and build a business where I can reach back out to some former players and teammates, whom I built relationships with around the country.”
If the stock market was a longtime passion of the Big Ten All-Academic student, Considine also is staying active with his high school alma mater’s football team.
“I love teaching football,” Considine told Jim Gehman of PhiladelphiaEagles.com. “I have been the volunteer defensive coordinator for Byron High going on 10 years. My high school best friend Jeff Boyer is the head coach. Just to be around football and the competition and environment of the game is very rewarding. It has been a great opportunity to stay involved with football and also give back to the game that has given so much to me and my family.”
We at NFL Alumni appreciate Sean Considine for his years in the league and for now giving back as a volunteer coach to our great sport. He is just one more example of the type of high quality individual who has played and enjoyed our game since his high school days right up to the present. Go Byron Tigers!
