{"id":41758,"date":"2025-05-11T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/41758\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:44:10","slug":"saints-qb-derek-carr-announces-retirement-from-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/41758\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints QB Derek Carr announces\u00a0 retirement from the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr has announced his retirement.In late March, while ramping up his preparation for the 2025 season, Derek experienced pain in his right shoulder. It was his first time throwing a football at significant volume since recovering from both a concussion and left hand injury sustained during play on December 8, 2024. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/derek-carr-retirement-nfl-announcement-quarterback-new-orleans-saints-roster\" title=\"New Orleans Saints QB Derek Carr announces retirement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the time the New Orleans Saints rookie draft picks, undrafted free agents, tryout players and a handful of under-contract players took the field for the third and final day of rookie minicamp at the Saints&#8217; practice facility, there&#8217;d been time for digestion of the news that New Orleans would enter the 2025 season with a new starting quarterback. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/derek-carr-retires-thanks-new-orleans-saints-for-opportunity-to-live-out-childhood-dream\" title=\"Derek Carr retires, thanks New Orleans Saints for opportunity to live out &#039;childhood dream&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were reverberations around the NFL following Derek Carr&#8217;s retirement announcement Saturday morning. Tyler Shough showed no sign of aftershocks. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/new-orleans-saints-rookie-quarterback-tyler-shough-even-keeled-in-wake-of-derek-carr-retirement\" title=\"New Orleans Saints rookie quarterback Tyler Shough even-keeled in wake of Derek Carr retirement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr has announced his retirement.In late March, while ramping up his preparation for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-41758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114489502331723655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758","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=41758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}