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Rob Gronkowski to make 'big announcement' on Tuesday morning

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Rob Gronkowski is planning to make an announcement on Tuesday morning, according to a post on his Instagram account. The "big announcement," will come at 9 a.m. on his Instagram account.

"I can't wait to drop it on all y'all this coming Tuesday," he said in the story post. "It's going to be fun, it's going to be wild, it's going to be a good time [...] let's go."

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The former tight end is in his first year of retirement following a nine-year career with the New England Patriots.

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Gronkowski also took to Facebook on Sunday, sharing a Tom Brady video post from March 2016 that shows the quarterback calling all of his receivers to assemble.

New England Patriots RECEIVERS… ASSEMBLE!!!

Posted by Tom Brady on Thursday, March 31, 2016

If Gronkowski is to return to the Patriots and the NFL, he would have to decide so by November 30. The former tight end still has not officially submitted his retirement papers to the NFL.

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