{"id":897962,"date":"2026-05-22T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897962\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:15:12","slug":"uclas-demetric-felton-retires-joins-the-cleveland-browns-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897962\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA&#8217;s Demetric Felton retires, joins the Cleveland Browns staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2026, 6:25 p.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former <a href=\"\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">UCLA Bruin<\/a> running back Demetric Felton announced his retirement from his football playing career on Tuesday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYhkX_rkUiu\/?img_index=1\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felton announcing on Instagram<\/a> that he\u2019s stepping into a player development role with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Felton was drafted by the Browns back in 2021 in the sixth round. Felton would play for Cleveland, the Cincinnati Bengals, Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts and the Washington Commanders. Felton most recently appeared on an <a href=\"http:\/\/uclawire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/ucla\/2025\/08\/25\/five-ucla-football-players-washington-commanders-roster\/85811818007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL roster in 2025 with the Commanders<\/a>, then playing for the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYhkX_rkUiu\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UCLA brought out Felton\u2019s versatility, using him as both a running back and wide receiver over his Bruin career. After redshirting in 2016, Felton was a member of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/big-ten\/ucla\" data-autotag=\"3a4d050f-c443-483d-b79a-1b3c4e0cf903\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bruins<\/a> from 2017-2020, starting at both positions while with UCLA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During his UCLA career, Felton set a career-best in receiving yards with 594 in 2019 before shifting his focus to running back in 2020, where he racked up 668 rushing yards while averaging 5.1 yards per carry. Felton scored 16 career touchdowns as a Bruin, including one on a kickoff return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the NFL, Felton\u2019s rookie season was his most productive, putting up 181 receiving yards for an 8-9 Browns team. Felton scored two touchdowns as a rookie and would never find the end zone in the NFL again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\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\">Now Felton will pass on his expertise as a member of the Browns\u2019 coaching staff, where he\u2019ll have a chance to coach up young skill players such as Quinshon Judkins, Dylan Sampson, Denzel Boston and KC Concepcion.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 21, 2026, 6:25 p.m. PT Former UCLA Bruin running back Demetric Felton announced his retirement from his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[95878,86,85,54,2337,7,6,120703,106010,96358,95882,117086,96219,95946,97975,97216,95957,96152,96027,96324,95896,95906,95883,120704,106215,97444,95881],"class_list":["post-897962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-accessfree","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sourceucla-wire","tag-sstssportscollegeuclafootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbc-lions","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcanadian-football-league","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-tagcleveland-browns","tag-tagcollege-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-taginstagram","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagucla","tag-tagucla-bruins","tag-tagucla-bruins-football","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897962","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=897962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}