{"id":754380,"date":"2026-02-15T18:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/754380\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:39:15","slug":"former-pittsburgh-steelers-offensive-lineman-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/754380\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Zach Banner announced his retirement from football on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis is that announcement that every professional athlete hates to make,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZBNFL\/status\/2023011913777737895?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Banner said<\/a>. \u201cYou try your hardest to play and perform at a high level as long as you can. You work so many hours and days on and off the field to chase your dreams and goals, and you don\u2019t really have time to process that announcement. But, I\u2019m here no so I am officially going to retire from the National Football League\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Banner was drafted in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Indianapolis Colts out of USC. He joined the Steelers in 2019, appearing in 22 games for Pittsburgh from 2019-21. Banner most recently played for the Houston Roughnecks in the UFL in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know what you think in the comments. Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Zach Banner announced his retirement from football on social media. \u201cThis is that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2374,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-754380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116076109303480662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754380","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=754380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}