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04:45 AM ET 07.13 | What was revealed after the season to be a fracture in his right hip was only part of Antonio Cromartie's problem. All throughout the organization there were whispers that the then-24-year-old's head was not right. "Last year my head wasn't in there," Cromartie said. "I was dealing with my kids and their moms. It had my mind somewhere else." Cromartie has been named in at least five paternity suits in the past two years. He acknowledged it hasn't always been so, but he is trying to take care of them financially. "It took me awhile to man up and say, 'I gotta do what I'm supposed to do,'and accept my responsibilities," said Cromartie, who is not married or engaged to any of the mothers. "I can't point a finger at anybody else. I made a lot of bad decisions my first and second year in the league. I point a finger at myself." There are a lot of directions to be pulled when you have seven kids living in five states. A two-millimeter crack in the hip -- suffered in the season opener -- limited Cromartie to about a dozen full practices all season and made it so that an out route against him was easy pickings for opposing quarterbacks. There came a time last season when agent Gary Wichard told him not to play, as did mentor Deion Sanders.