{"id":776527,"date":"2026-02-26T00:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/776527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:23:14","slug":"derek-carr-is-very-serious-about-unretiring-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/776527\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Carr is &#8216;very serious&#8217; about unretiring in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year after shocking the NFL world with his sudden retirement, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/new-orleans-saints\/nfl-rumors-derek-carr-unretiring-good-for-saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Carr is on the verge of making his return<\/a>. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/new-orleans-saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> quarterback is considering making his way back to the team in 2026 after leaving them in the wind in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Amid rumors that Carr is considering a comeback, the 34-year-old is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/2026797185908584490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cvery serious\u201d about unretiring<\/a>, NFL insider Jordan Schultz reported.<\/p>\n<p>Carr has spent the last season recovering from various injuries and spending time with his family. The injuries are what forced him to call it a career in the first place, but he appears to believe he is fully healthy and prepared to get back on the horse.<\/p>\n<p>While Carr left the Saints in a precarious position when he initially retired, they no longer need him in 2026. New Orleans is fully <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/new-orleans-saints\/saints-news-new-orleans-obvious-tyler-shough-qb1-decision-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">content with Tyler Shough as its franchise quarterback<\/a>, giving Carr only one option if he unretires.<\/p>\n<p>Carr still has two years remaining of the four-year deal he signed with the Saints in 2023. His rights remain with New Orleans, but multiple teams \u201cwith winning aspirations\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/2026797185908584490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would be interested<\/a> in trading for Carr, Schultz reported.<\/p>\n<p>Any trade would be good for the Saints, who would essentially net free assets in return for a quarterback they have no use for. Carr&#8217;s potential return would be buoyed by a subpar quarterback free agency group and a weak incoming draft class.<\/p>\n<p>In his final season with the Saints, Carr threw for 2,145 passing yards, 15 touchdowns and five interceptions in 10 games before suffering a season-ending hand injury. He started the season scorching hot, throwing 443 passing yards and five touchdowns in New Orleans&#8217; first two games, before dropping off hard and succumbing to injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year after shocking the NFL world with his sudden retirement, Derek Carr is on the verge of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[496,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,832,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-776527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-derek-carr","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-rumors","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116134085231079219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776527","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=776527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}