{"id":227855,"date":"2025-07-22T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/227855\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:56:33","slug":"veteran-outside-linebacker-lorenzo-carter-retiring-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/227855\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter retiring from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Former Atlanta Falcons outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter is retiring from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s current team, the Tennessee Titans, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jwyattsports\/status\/1947705105945338005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced the news Tuesday.<\/a> Carter will be placed on the league&#8217;s Reserve\/Retired list.<\/p>\n<p>Carter played for the Falcons from 2022-24. He appeared in all but four games during that timeframe, starting 29 of the 51 possible games overall. He totaled 125 tackles, 14 of which were for a loss, with seven sacks. He also recovered three fumbles and forced two.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to those statistics, Carter turned an interception into his sole career pick six during the Falcons&#8217; Week 8 overtime win against the Carolina Panthers on Oct. 30, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Carter closes out his seven-year career with 278 tackles and 21.5 sacks in 62 starts and 96 appearances. He finished with a total of five forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Former Atlanta Falcons outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter is retiring from the NFL. Carter&#8217;s current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[348,223,254,2554,224,7,88,6,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-227855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-2025-offseason","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-terrin-waack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114898651252140752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227855","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=227855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}