{"id":849744,"date":"2026-04-02T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849744\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:10:15","slug":"lb-anthony-walker-retires-from-nfl-after-nine-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849744\/","title":{"rendered":"LB Anthony Walker retires from NFL after nine seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"0534de31-ed14-2144-4278-41d2f9ea3be2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3045251\/anthony-walker-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Walker Jr<\/a>. announced his retirement Thursday after nine NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you football for 26 years of blood, sweat and tears,&#8221; Walker, 30, wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, who was a fifth-round draft pick by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"582d14eb-da61-e505-cc40-d972a1b60ed1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> in 2017, made more than 100 tackles in a season three times in his career.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in two regular-season games last season for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13e8b157-a75a-ff24-ae91-fa3d52ddf204\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, who signed him off the Colts&#8217; practice squad in December.<\/p>\n<p>He retires with 581 tackles, 5.5 sacks and four interceptions in 101 games (83 starts) for the Colts, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"539babc5-e5fb-753b-8ae1-c15032a91ef4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"af33088b-1e19-d27d-dbc0-354fd7151703\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> and Buccaneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linebacker Anthony Walker Jr. announced his retirement Thursday after nine NFL seasons. &#8220;Thank you football for 26 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-849744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336461600603491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849744","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=849744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}