{"id":644688,"date":"2026-01-01T04:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:13:17","slug":"philip-rivers-announces-final-career-decision-before-week-18v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644688\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers announces final career decision before Week 18v"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indianapolis Colts<\/a> fell to 8-8 after losing their sixth straight game on Sunday. While the Colts were already eliminated from the playoffs<\/a>, Philip Rivers<\/a> took the field for the team’s final home game of 2025.<\/p>\n

Rivers un-retired and re-signed with the Colts<\/a> in an effort to save the Indy\u2019s season after Daniel Jones tore his Achilles. But the 44-year-old quarterback couldn\u2019t pull the team out of its spiral. With Indy out of the playoffs hunt, Rivers announced his re-retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m back to the sideline,\u201d Rivers told Kay Adams on the Up & Adams Show. \u201cThis was a fun, three-week blur that nobody saw coming, including myself. And that\u2019ll be it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philip Rivers re-retires after 3-game run with Colts<\/p>\n

Rivers assured Adams that he is done with football. And he explained that he only came back after a five-year absence because the Colts presented the perfect situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I was done in 2020\u2026 This was just\u2013 everything just lined up right. Because [had a different team] called, there was no chance. Because, again, it was a place I\u2019d been, a team I was familiar with, the offense was exactly the same, a coach I knew. It was all those things [that] made it a perfect storm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riley Leonard will start for the Colts in the regular season finale. And Rivers is excited to get back to coaching high school football, with two of his sons on his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [returning to the Colts will] kickstart our offseason program to say the least. Maybe some things I say to them they\u2019ll take a little more serious now that I was just out there playing a few weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

After an 8-2 start the Colts hit a wall. Rivers did his best to hold the team together following Jones\u2019 injury. The eight-time Pro Bowler had some vintage moments in his surprise three-game return to the NFL. And he struggled at times as well.<\/p>\n

Rivers carved up the 49ers on Monday Night Football and gave the Colts a chance to win against the Seahawks. But he couldn\u2019t snap Indianapolis\u2019 losing streak.<\/p>\n

Still, the un-retirement wasn\u2019t a total failure. Rivers secured health benefits for the next five years with his return. That\u2019s no small thing for a man with 10 children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts fell to 8-8 after losing their sixth straight game on Sunday. While the Colts were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,3725],"class_list":{"0":"post-644688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philip-rivers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115817900176485791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644688","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=644688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}