{"id":239304,"date":"2025-07-27T03:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/239304\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:57:14","slug":"veteran-edge-rusher-lorenzo-carter-informs-titans-of-his-plans-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/239304\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Edge Rusher Lorenzo Carter Informs Titans of His Plans to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE \u2013 Veteran edge rusher Lorenzo Carter has informed the Titans of his plans to retire.<\/p>\n<p>A third-round draft pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, Carter signed with the Titans back in March after playing previously with the Giants (2018-2021) and Falcons (2022-2024).<\/p>\n<p>Carter took part in the team&#8217;s offseason program, including OTAs and minicamp.<\/p>\n<p>Carter will be placed on the league&#8217;s Reserve\/Retired list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He notified us yesterday that he will be retiring,&#8221; Titans General Manager Mike Borgonzi said, &#8220;so we wish him well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-5, 265-pounder, Carter has played in 96 games, with 62 starts, and he&#8217;s tallied 278 tackles with 21.5 sacks and 35 tackles for a loss, 18 passes defensed, five forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries in his career. Carter played in 13 games, with 11 starts, in 2024 with the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans currently have seven edge rushers on the team&#8217;s roster: Arden Key, Dre&#8217;Mont Jones, Femi Oladejo, Jaylen Harrell, Ali Gaye, Titus Leo and Desmond Evans.<\/p>\n<p>The first practice of training camp is set for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE \u2013 Veteran edge rusher Lorenzo Carter has informed the Titans of his plans to retire. A third-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[5111,7,786,6,1018,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-239304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-articles-roster-moves","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-team-football-news","13":"tag-tennessee","14":"tag-tennessee-titans","15":"tag-tennesseetitans","16":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114923191894289719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239304","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=239304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}