{"id":149615,"date":"2025-06-22T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149615\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:41:16","slug":"alabama-legend-cj-mosley-announces-major-career-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149615\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Legend CJ Mosley Announces Major Career Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama Legend CJ Mosley Announces Major Career Decision<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Alabama Crimson Tide defense in the 2011 season was a dominant force.<\/p>\n

Alabama held opponents to 8.3 points, 111.5 passing yards and 72.2 rushing yards per game that year. One of the members of that star-studded defense was linebacker CJ Mosley.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday,\u00a0CBS Sports’ Matt Zenitz<\/a> reported that Mosley had decided to retire from football.<\/p>\n

Mosley played for Alabama from 2010-13, taking home multiple All-American selections (2012-13), the Butkus Award (2013) and the SEC Defensive Player of the Year (2013).<\/p>\n

The linebacker accounted for 317 total tackles, 24 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks and five interceptions during his time at Alabama.<\/p>\n

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New York Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley. Steve Roberts-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

After a fruitful college career, Mosley took his talents to the NFL. He was drafted 17th overall by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2014 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

He got off to a hot start in the NFL with the Ravens, making the Pro Bowl in four of the five seasons he spent with the franchise. He was also a four-time All-Pro with the Ravens and won Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Mosley spent 2014-18 with the team before becoming a member of the New York Jets in 2019. His first season with his new team did not go as planned, as he only played in two games because of a groin injury.<\/p>\n

He then opted out of the 2020 NFL season. However, he returned in 2021 and made a significant contribution on defense. He followed up the 2021 season by making the Pro Bowl in 2022.<\/p>\n

The injury issues resurfaced last season, with Mosley missing 13 games due to a neck injury and losing the starting job at middle linebacker.<\/p>\n

Mosley recorded 1,083 total tackles, 55 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, 12 interceptions and 10 forced fumbles.<\/p>\n

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Alabama is now led by head coach Kalen DeBoer, who went 9-4 in his first season with the program. The Crimson Tide has recruited well under DeBoer, with the head coach holding the No. 10 overall 2026 recruiting class on On3 Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recent recruiting news for Alabama includes the commitment date for target Deacon Schmitt, and the Crimson Tide was also named a finalist for edge rusher Khamari Brooks.<\/p>\n

Related: Kalen DeBoer Uses West Coast Ties to Land Massive 4-Star Commitment<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 21, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama Legend CJ Mosley Announces Major Career Decision originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Alabama Crimson Tide defense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[52,930,117,26186,7,226,4135,1917,255,2321,2097,6,28660],"class_list":{"0":"post-149615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-cj-mosley","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jets","14":"tag-linebacker","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-jets","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkjets","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-the-crimson-tide"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114726364455671415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}