“After 27 unforgettable years of pouring my heart into this game, and 13 incredible years in the NFL, it’s time for me to step away from playing the sport that has given me everything,” the 33-year-old Woods wrote in his post to social media. “Football has never just been a game to me — it has been my passion, my purpose, and my lifelong dream. I cherished every moment my cleats touched the grass. Every time I stepped onto the field, I was determined to leave a piece of myself in every snap.”<\/p>\n
A consensus All-American at USC, Woods compiled an impressive NFL career that began in Buffalo, where the Bills welcomed him as a second-round pick in 2013. He spent four seasons in Western New York before venturing toward the other side of the country to join the Rams, tallying back-to-back 1,000-yard receiving seasons in 2018 and 2019. In his final season in a Rams uniform, he won a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Never an overwhelmingly gifted receiver physically, Woods won with premier fundamentals and polish, proving himself as a highly reliable pass-catcher who could run routes expertly and often delivered when called upon. He enjoyed his best seasons as a key part in Sean McVay’s passing attack, becoming a favorite target of young quarterback Jared Goff<\/a> while sharing the field with the likes of Brandin Cooks<\/a> and Cooper Kupp<\/a>, and doing much of it on the same field he called home during his collegiate days with the Trojans.<\/p>\n Woods last played in 2024 for the Houston Texans before spending time with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2025, but was released on Sept. 2 and did not play for the team.<\/p>\n Over the course of a career that also included time with the Tennessee Titans, Woods recorded 683 receptions for 8,233 yards and 38 touchdowns. He’ll ride off into the sunset with two 1,000-yard seasons, a Super Bowl ring and plenty of memories in his possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“After 27 unforgettable years of pouring my heart into this game, and 13 incredible years in the NFL,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1227,53,7,253,58,88,609,4267,57,5329,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-759318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-robert-woods","18":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759318","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=759318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}