{"id":799170,"date":"2026-03-07T21:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/799170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:28:29","slug":"darious-williams-retires-from-nfl-after-8-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/799170\/","title":{"rendered":"Darious Williams retires from NFL after 8 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams announced that Darious Williams is retiring from the NFL after eight seasons. The former undrafted free agent out of UAB broke his way into L.A.\u2019s starting lineup in 2019 and helped the team win a Super Bowl in 2021, before leaving to sign with the Jaguars and then returning to the Rams over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams will save $7.5 million without Williams on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 33-year-old cornerback was a cut candidate after appearing in 12 games last year, just three as a starter, recording 25 tackles and one interception. The Rams have started to address their need at cornerback by acquiring Trent McDuffie in a trade with the Chiefs this week and will continue to put resources into that position through the course of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Williams had 12 career interceptions, including eight with the Rams over his 67 appearances with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams announced that Darious Williams is retiring from the NFL after eight seasons. The former undrafted free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-799170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116190022350163204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799170","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=799170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}