{"id":797065,"date":"2026-03-06T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/797065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:03:16","slug":"four-time-pro-bowl-center-ryan-kelly-announces-retirement-after-10-seasons-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/797065\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-time Pro Bowl center Ryan Kelly announces retirement after 10 seasons in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a decade-long run, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ryan-kelly\/\" title=\"Ryan Kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Kelly<\/a> is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, a four-time Pro Bowl center, announced on social media Friday that he will retire from football after finishing his 10th NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;10 seasons. What an incredible ride it was,&#8221; Kelly <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ryan_kelly70\/status\/2030027404064751837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I was blessed to be around some of the greatest people this sport has to offer. I always wanted to leave each place better than how I found it and with that I can hang my hat. Forever grateful for my family and brothers! Cheers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly dealt with multiple concussions in 2025 with the Vikings, ending the year on injured reserve. He signed a two-year, $18 million deal last offseason with Minnesota after spending his first nine seasons with the Colts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a decade-long run, Ryan Kelly is calling it a career. Kelly, a four-time Pro Bowl center, announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,392,259,88,6,609,4267,8316],"class_list":{"0":"post-797065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis-colts","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-ryan-kelly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116184495510192957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797065","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=797065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}