NFL veteran announces retirement in shocking offseason move

An eight-year NFL seasoned who started 16 games past play has shockingly called it quits for his career. 

Los Angeles Chargers halfway Bradley Bozeman announced his determination connected Instagram connected Monday, saying helium is "ready for my adjacent chapter."

"This crippled has fixed maine truthful overmuch – lessons, lifelong friendships, and memories my household volition transportation forever. I’ve poured everything I had into this journey, and I locomotion distant grateful and proud."

Bozeman, 31, shared pictures from his clip with the Chargers, Carolina Panthers and Baltimore Ravens implicit his 8 years successful the league. He saw galore antithetic coaches and teammates crossed 3 franchises, and helium acknowledged them each arsenic good arsenic their fans. 

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Bradley Bozeman of the Los Angeles Chargers looks connected during the nationalist anthem anterior to an NFL chaotic paper playoff crippled against the New England Patriots astatine Gillette Stadium connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Foxborough, Mass. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

"Thank you to each teammate, coach, and instrumentality I was blessed to transverse paths with on the way," helium wrote.

Bozeman besides showed his emotion for his family, including his 3 children: Brody, Bailey and Boone. He besides called his wife, Nikki, "unbelievable," calling her his "ride oregon dice from the precise beginning," and adding "I couldn’t person done immoderate of this without you!"

Bozeman finished disconnected his station with a punctuation helium heard during his career. 

"’Every vocation – nary substance however decorated – ends successful a trash bag,’" helium wrote. "The crippled moves on. Someone fills your spot. I’m conscionable thankful God gave maine the accidental to instrumentality the ride."

Bradley Bozeman of the Los Angeles Chargers lines up during an NFL chaotic paper playoff crippled against the New England Patriots astatine Gillette Stadium connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Foxborough, Mass. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Bozeman said that the adjacent section volition beryllium "life astatine the farm," arsenic the Alabama autochthonal and erstwhile Crimson Tide lineman completed his caption with "Roll Tide."

Bozeman was drafted by the Ravens successful the sixth circular of the 2018 NFL Draft, wherever helium played successful 14 games successful Baltimore with 1 start. Then, caput manager John Harbaugh gave him the motion arsenic the team’s starting near defender for the adjacent 2 seasons, starting each 16 games successful each of them, earlier shifting to halfway successful 2021.

With his rookie woody up aft that season, Bozeman landed with the Panthers, spending the 2022 and 2023 campaigns with the franchise, wherever helium was the team’s starting center. 

Finally, Bozeman teamed up with his aged coach’s brother, Jim Harbaugh, arsenic helium signed with the Chargers to revamp their ain line. He signed a two-year, $6.5 cardinal woody with the squad successful 2025, but helium won’t beryllium seeing that done now. 

Bradley Bozeman of the Baltimore Ravens looks connected during warm-up earlier the crippled against the Cleveland Browns astatine FirstEnergy Stadium connected Dec. 12, 2021 successful Cleveland. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)

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Instead, the Chargers volition person a spot to capable connected an violative enactment that struggled mightily aft losing prima tackles Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt with season-ending injuries successful 2025. 

Tyler Linderbaum, an ex-Ravens center, volition beryllium a blistery commodity connected the escaped cause market, and could spot involvement from Los Angeles present that Bozeman has retired.   

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