Offensive lineman Andrew Whitworth, an NFL champion with the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI, announced Tuesday his retirement after 16 seasons.
“I am Andrew Whitworth player of the Los Angeles Rams and today I am announcing my retirement”, was the message that the 40-year-old player shared on his social networks.
The winner in the 2021 season of the Walter Payton Trophy, Man of the Year, which recognizes the player with the most outstanding activities of service to the community, explained how he lived the last stage of his career with the Rams.
“Five years ago they told me that maybe my time had ended and here I am, five years later giving my opinion of what has happened in that time, and after 16 years of career, and they still ask me how you have been able to do it so high level,” he added.
The four-time Pro Bowl selection arrived at the NFL selected by the Bengals in 55th place in the second round of the 2006 Draft, with Cincinnati until 2016.
In 2017, the man born in Monroe, Louisiana, signed with the Los Angeles Rams, a squad with which he played twice for the NFL championship, lost Super Bowl LIII in 2018 against the Patriots 13-3, and won in 2022. , in the LVI edition, to the Bengals 23-20.
The owner of the Rams jersey number 77 confessed what is the most precious thing he takes as a memory of his career.
“I think about what this journey has been and all the people who have been with me and supported me, I think that’s really what I feel the most; I don’t think about the trophies, I don’t think about the championships, I think about the people”.
Since joining the Rams in 2016, Andrew Whitworth has been elected team captain for his leadership and for being an example to the younger players on the team.
“During my time here I always looked for ways to show them how to be better and push them to a different level of excellence at a different standard each season,” the lineman shared in his farewell.
In his career with the Bengals and the Rams, the player started 235 games. At age 40, he became the oldest lineman to play in a Super Bowl.
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Rams champion Andrew Whitworth retires after 16 NFL seasons