{"id":822365,"date":"2026-03-20T02:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/822365\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:51:29","slug":"logan-wilson-speaks-out-on-retirement-super-bowl-penalty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/822365\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Wilson speaks out on retirement, Super Bowl penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 19, 2026, 9:15 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> linebacker <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/18\/bengals-logan-wilson-retires-nfl\/89216504007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Wilson announced his retirement<\/a> from the NFL this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It didn\u2019t take long for Wilson to get in the mix on social media and throw some thoughts out there, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">First up, almost as expected, was Wilson breaking his silence about the now-infamous holding penalty during the Super Bowl loss to the Los Angeles Rams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wilson kept it simple:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wilson also took the time to clarify why he retired so early while going back and forth with fans:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Not a bad one-two punch from Wilson to start his retired life. Odds are, as he\u2019s hinted in other social media messages already, he\u2019ll soon enough be a Ruler of the Jungle at Paycor Stadium like past modern greats like Sam Hubbard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">All of this follows Wilson\u2019s big nod to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> and fans during his retirement announcement on social media this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Cincinnati will always mean a lot to me. The teammates, coaches, staff and fans made those years unforgettable. That 2021 playoff run was something special &#8211; the interception in Tennessee to send us to the AFC Championship, beating Kansas City to win the AFC, and taking the field in the Super Bowl. Those moments and that locker room are something I&#8217;ll carry with me forever. And the best part of all, my daughter was born there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 19, 2026, 9:15 p.m. ET Former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson announced his retirement from the NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95887,96696,95913,96082,95908,95896,95888,95906,114080,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-822365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-accessfree","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnflbengals","tag-sstsnbengals","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagamerican-football-conference","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-taglogan-wilson","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsam-hubbard","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116259237966152922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822365","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=822365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}