Veteran Anthony Simmons, who failed to report to the New Orleans Saints training camp, has retired. A spokesman for the agency which represents the seven-year veteran said that Simmons had family issues that required his attention and that the wrist injury which kept him out of the league the entire 2005 season had flared up again. Those two elements made Simmons, who was projected to go to camp as a starter in the revamped New Orleans defense, reconsider his comeback attempt.