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Longtime NFL Star Retiring At 43 After 2024 Season

Originally posted on The Spun | By Kameron Duncan | Last updated Feb 25, 2025 4:11 PM ET

The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl for the second time in franchise history earlier this month, but one player who contributed to the team's first championship is calling it a career.

Offensive lineman Jason Peters is retiring at the age of 43, after 19 seasons in the NFL with five different teams. Peters won a Super Bowl with the Eagles back in the 2017 season, a member of the team that defeated the New England Patriots.

Veteran OT Jason Peters is retiring after 19 NFL seasons and 248 games. An undrafted free agent in 2004, he became a 9x Pro Bowler, 6x All-Pro, and Super Bowl champion with Philadelphia. Originally a DL/TE in college, Peters went on to become a top OT in the NFL and now finally… pic.twitter.com/XUZmnacb2I
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) February 25, 2025

Peters entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Arkansas in 2004. He went on to make nine Pro Bowls and six All-Pro teams.

He began his career with the Buffalo Bills, emerging as a Pro Bowler for the first time during the 2007 season. That would mark the first of five consecutive Pro Bowl appearances for the lineman prior to an Achilles injury.

After returning from the torn Achilles, Peters made the Pro Bowl and was a first-team All-Pro the next season.

He finished second in Comeback Player of the Year voting to Peyton Manning, who also returned from a career-threatening injury in 2013.

Peters left the Eagles in 2021 after an 11 year stint, and played for the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys before ending his career with the Seattle Seahawks.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 01: Jason Peters #71 of the Philadelphia Eagles reacts after the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field on November 1, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)Mitchell Leff/Getty Images

According to Mike Dugar of The Athletic, Peters will remain with the Seahawks in a new role. He'll work in player engagement and development while reporting to vice president of player affairs Mo Kelly.

"Sunday, going into a game, you had no worries who the pass rusher was," Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said about Peters. Roseman spoke to reporters on Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine.

"Elite athlete, elite teammate, world champion. In my mind, no doubt a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Just an incredible career, one of the many players where I don't think I'd be standing up here if it weren't for guys like that."

Peters was appreciated by fans around the league for his longevity, and we'll see if Hall of Fame voters feel the same way when he's eligible for induction in five years.

This article first appeared on The Spun and was syndicated with permission.

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