Super Bowl champion Bryce Huff retires from NFL at 27

San Francisco 49ers antiaircraft extremity Bryce Huff announced Thursday helium volition discontinue from the league aft six seasons. Huff is 27.

The 49ers acquired Huff successful a commercialized from the Philadelphia Eagles past offseason. He was a cardinal portion of San Francisco’s defence successful 2025, finishing tied for archetypal successful sacks with four. However, helium failed to grounds a sack successful his last 10 games successful the regular play and playoffs.

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Philadelphia Eagles antiaircraft extremity Bryce Huff (0) against the Cleveland Browns astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Oct. 13, 2024. (Eric Hartline/Imagn Images)

"I'm retiring from football. I started playing shot erstwhile I was 4 years old," helium said successful a video posted to his Instagram. "Growing up, I wasn't the biggest oregon the strongest, and I didn't person immoderate friends. All I truly had was the game, shot kept maine grounded."

Huff joined the New York Jets successful 2020 arsenic an undrafted escaped cause retired of Memphis. He played 4 seasons with the team, signaling 65 tackles and 17.5 sacks.

He signed with the Eagles successful 2024, playing 12 games for them and being a portion of the Super Bowl-winning team.

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San Francisco 49ers antiaircraft extremity Bryce Huff (47) leaves the tract aft the crippled against the Indianapolis Colts astatine Lucas Oil Stadium connected Dec. 22, 2025.  (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)

"I entered the NFL with a spot connected my shoulder, and truthful I signed with the New York Jets arsenic an undrafted escaped agent," Huff continued. "Thanks to manager Gregg Williams and Blake Williams, I earned a roster spot my archetypal year. I spent countless hours learning everything I could astir the game. When manager Saleh arrived my 2nd year, helium and his unit helped maine go the champion mentation of myself. My 4 years successful New York volition ever mean a batch to me. That locker country built me. During that time, I earned a declaration that made maine the highest paid undrafted non-QB successful NFL history. I spent a twelvemonth successful Philadelphia wherever we won a Super Bowl.

"I truly evaluated what mattered successful my life. That led maine to San Francisco, wherever I was capable to reset successful a strategy I understood with a radical of guys I respected. We battled done injuries, fought our mode into the playoffs, and gave everything we had. Through each of it, I realized something. Football has been my full life. I played ever since I was 4 years old. But astatine 27 years old, I cognize I'm susceptible of giving the satellite much than conscionable football. The crippled taught maine perseverance, it taught maine discipline. It taught maine however to pb and however to find a mode for it, wherever things consciousness impossible."

San Francisco 49ers antiaircraft extremity Bryce Huff walks connected the tract during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Atlanta Falcons, Oct. 19, 2025, successful Santa Clara, California. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

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Huff said he’s focusing connected his lithium artillery institution whose extremity is to suppress their occurrence risk.

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