{"id":14606,"date":"2024-03-08T03:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-jason-kelce-confirms-retirement-after-13-seasons-with-philadelphia-eagles\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T03:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:57:44","slug":"nfl-jason-kelce-confirms-retirement-after-13-seasons-with-philadelphia-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-jason-kelce-confirms-retirement-after-13-seasons-with-philadelphia-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Jason Kelce confirms retirement after 13 seasons with Philadelphia Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A tearful Jason Kelce confirmed his retirement on Monday after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old spent his entire career with Philadelphia, helping them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/42940719\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">win their first Super Bowl in 2018<\/a> and reach the NFL showpiece again in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelce was a sixth-round draft pick by the Eagles in 2011 but is now regarded as one of the NFL&#8217;s best-ever centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He cried as he began a statement lasting more than 40 minutes and continued to hold back tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am very proud knowing where I was once was and the legacy I have left behind,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68015624\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Kelce denied that he had decided to retire<\/a> in January, in the wake of the Eagles&#8217; exit from last season&#8217;s play-offs, saying he needed time to consider his future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A seven-time Pro Bowl selection, he played 205 games and holds the franchise record for consecutive starts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will be remembered as a Philadelphia legend, securing that status with a passionate speech during their Super Bowl parade in 2018 &#8211; on the steps made famous by the Rocky movies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Eagles returned to the Super Bowl to take on the Kansas City Chiefs in 2023, with Kelce facing his brother Travis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68471231\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tearful Jason Kelce confirmed his retirement on Monday after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles. The 36-year-old spent his entire career with Philadelphia, helping them win their first Super Bowl in 2018 and reach the NFL showpiece again in 2023. Kelce was a sixth-round draft pick by the Eagles in 2011 but is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14608,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}