{"id":203207,"date":"2025-07-13T05:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/203207\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:45:16","slug":"ndamukong-suh-announces-nfl-retirement-following-13-year-career-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/203207\/","title":{"rendered":"Ndamukong Suh announces NFL retirement following 13-year career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ndamukong Suh is calling it quits after thirteen years in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Suh, 38, announced his retirement on Saturday through a heartfelt message on social media<\/a>, one year after the death of his father.<\/p>\n

\u201cJuly 12, 2024, was the hardest day of my life,\u201d the statement read. \u201cIt\u2019s the day I said goodbye to my father, the man who raised me, shaped me, challenged me, and believed in me before I believed in myself. He wasn\u2019t just a dad. He was my idol, my coach, and my anchor. He taught me what it meant to be disciplined, focused, and relentless in everything I do.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery snap I took in football carried his fingerprint. Every time I lined up across from someone, I could hear his voice pushing me, reminding me that I wasn\u2019t just representing myself. I was representing him, my family, my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Miami<\/p>\n

Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (93) reacts to a play during the first quarter of a preseason NFL football game against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. USA Today Sports<\/p>\n

Suh, who has not played in the NFL since 2022<\/a> but was not officially retired, said that his father was the one who ultimately encouraged him to move on from football.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore he passed, he gave me one final piece of advice, \u2018It\u2019s time to let football go. You\u2019ve done everything you set out to do. Now it\u2019s time for the next chapter.\u2019 That conversation stayed with me,\u201d Suh continued. \u201cSo today, one year later, I\u2019m honoring that wish. I\u2019m officially retiring from the NFL.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have so many memories to cherish. 13 seasons. 5x All-Pro. A Super Bowl ring. Countless battles in the trenches. I left it all on the field, and now I\u2019m stepping away with peace and gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ndamukong<\/p>\n

Ndamukong Suh #93 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers looks on prior to the game against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 20, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Suh was drafted by the Lions with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, and spent his first five seasons in Detroit where he was named 2010 Defensive Rookie of the Year, along with making back-to-back All-Pro teams in 2013-14.<\/p>\n

The Nebraska alum was also a Super Bowl champion as a<\/a> member of the Buccaneers in 2020.<\/p>\n

Suh amassed 600 tackles, 130 tackles for loss, and 71.5 sacks over his 13-year NFL career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ndamukong Suh is calling it quits after thirteen years in the NFL. Suh, 38, announced his retirement on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[223,254,211,146,7,6337,251,9596,6,704,250,2597,2596,3994],"class_list":{"0":"post-203207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","14":"tag-miami-dolphins","15":"tag-ndamukong-suh","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","21":"tag-the-chicago-bears"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114844345169629313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203207","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=203207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}