As he prepares to play in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday with the Kansas City Chiefs, Sammy Watkins is already contemplating his options for next season. One route under consideration is a break from football.

The wide receiver said Thursday he was willing to entertain the idea of taking the year off.

"I don't know what I'm going to do," Watkins told reporters. "If we win it, I might chill out. I might sit out a year. You just never know.

"Not retiring, but I might just want to rest up and chill. I don't know. I don't want to say I'm going to do something, but you never know. I might want to go somewhere else and create another Super Bowl team. So it's just all about how I'm feeling. I've got to sit down with my family, my parents and grandparents and everybody and just see what I want to do.''

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Watkins, 26, posted the most receptions (52) and receiving yards (673) this season since 2015, his second year in the NFL. In the AFC championship game win over the Tennessee Titans, he recorded seven catches for 114 yards and a touchdown.

But Watkins is set to count $21 million against the salary cap in the final year of his contract, and the Chiefs could save $14 million by releasing him.

Watkins wouldn't reveal on Thursday whether he was amenable to a pay cut.

"I don't want to say I will be (open to a pay cut). I don't want to say I won't," Watkins said, according to NFL.com. "I just think I'm a special player. I think I deserve all the things I deserve. If I'm at home and thinking about it, if I have to do it to pay Pat (Mahomes), I maybe will. That's a guy that we should pay, and he needs to get paid. But you never know. That's a decision I'd have to go through."

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