JJ Watt said Sunday’s loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be his last game on home turf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJJ Watt, considered one of the NFL’s greatest ever defensive players, has announced he will retire at the end of the current season.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
The Arizona Cardinals defensive end, 33, was voted NFL defensive player of the year three times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nWatt spent a decade with the Houston Texans before joining Arizona in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n“My heart is filled with nothing but love and gratitude. It’s been an absolute honor and a pleasure,” Watt <\/span>wrote on Twitter.<\/span>external-link<\/title><path d=\"M12 0v5h11.5l-5 5H0v22h22V17.5l-2 2V30H2V12h14.5l-7.8 7.7 3.6 3.6L27 8.5V20h5V0H12z\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.1.0.1\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Watt has spent the last two seasons with the Cardinals, after representing the Houston Texans between 2011 and 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">He added that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/64094142\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.$link-2.0\">Sunday’s defeat by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.3\"> was both his baby son Koa’s first NFL game, and his own “last ever” home game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Having failed to make the postseason, the Cardinals have two regular season games left, at Atlanta and San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">As well as being defensive player of the year in 2012, 2014 and 2015, Watt was the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">He was also named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 2017 for helping to raise $37m (\u00a330.7m) in relief funds for people affected by the devastation brought by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-41083210\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2.0\">Hurricane Harvey<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.3\"> in Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".1x0bdiz19xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">In his 12-year NFL career, Watt has 111.5 total sacks, 580 tackles and 27 forced fumbles, and is the only player in the last 40 years to record 20 or more sacks in multiple seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/64102113?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JJ Watt said Sunday’s loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be his last game on home turf JJ Watt, considered one of the NFL’s greatest ever defensive players, has announced he will retire at the end of the current season. The Arizona Cardinals defensive end, 33, was voted NFL defensive player of the year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4122,"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\/4121"}],"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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}