Lions announce Teddy Bridgewater has retired again, leaving team in middle of training camp

NFL seasoned backmost Teddy Bridgewater has erstwhile again retired from the game.

Detroit Lions caput manager Dan Campbell told reporters connected Sunday that Bridgewater, who was competing for the backup relation to Jared Goff successful the quarterbacks room, has decided to measurement distant from the squad successful the mediate of grooming camp.

The Lions officially placed Bridgewater connected the reserve/retired database up of their Sunday practice.

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FILE - Detroit Lions backmost Teddy Bridgewater (10) is seen connected the sideline during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Minnesota Vikings, Dec. 24, 2023 successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs, File)

Campbell added that helium believes status could instrumentality this clip for Bridgewater, who had antecedently retired pursuing the 2023 season. But helium rapidly rejoined the Lions for the 2024 season.

"I deliberation helium tin lone genuinely reply that, but I consciousness similar this is wherever it’s astatine for definite close now," Campbell said, via ESPN. "This is wherever it needs to beryllium and wherever helium felt. And his biggest interest was letting america down. That’s the benignant of guys helium is, and he’s not.

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"That’s arsenic acold arsenic it tin get. He meant a lot."

As a result, the Lions were reportedly speedy to motion different journeyman, Josh Dobbs, to a $1.425 cardinal declaration with $475,000 afloat guaranteed, per NFL Network. Dobbs is acquainted with Detroit, having been connected the team’s signifier squad during the 2022 campaign.

Dobbs has besides precocious backed up Drake Maye with the AFC-winning New England Patriots a play ago. He is simply a dual-threat quarterback, having the quality to usage his legs to prime up important yardage, which is the other of Goff’s crippled arsenic a existent pocket-passer.

As for Bridgewater, helium joined the Lions again arsenic an unrestricted escaped cause successful March aft backing up Baker Mayfield with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful 2025. Bridgewater was expected to backmost up Goff this year, but the Lions person to pivot now.

One of the galore reasons Bridgewater remains idiosyncratic NFL teams privation successful their locker country is owed to his mentorship abilities, knowing his relation arsenic a backup and helping the starter connected a play ground before, during, and aft the season. That includes moving with Goff successful 2023 and 2024, arsenic helium developed into 1 of the champion axenic passers successful the league successful an explosive Lions violative scheme.

Teddy Bridgewater of the Detroit Lions looks to propulsion the shot against the Jacksonville Jaguars during a preseason crippled astatine Ford Field successful Detroit, Mich., connected Aug. 19, 2023. (Getty Images)

Bridgewater, who was a first-round prime to the Minnesota Vikings successful 2014 retired of Louisville, was a Pro Bowler aboriginal successful his career. In conscionable his 2nd season, helium got the motion aft going 11-5 with 3,231 passing yards, 14 passing touchdowns, portion rushing for 192 yards with 3 scores.

But Bridgewater’s vocation was derailed, arsenic a starter astatine least, erstwhile a horrific genu wounded led to a near genu dislocation and a torn ACL during a signifier conscionable earlier the commencement of the 2016 season.

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Bridgewater would determination connected to the New Orleans Saints successful 2018, getting six starts crossed 2 seasons earlier getting a heavier workload with the Carolina Panthers successful 2020. He went 4-11 successful Carolina earlier going 7-7 with the Denver Broncos the pursuing year.

Bridgewater besides played a play with the Miami Dolphins successful 2022, going 0-2 successful his lone 2 starts with the franchise.

If this is officially Bridgewater’s past clip connected an NFL shot tract arsenic a quarterback, helium threw for 15,182 yards with 75 passing touchdowns implicit 83 games. He owned a 33-32 grounds arsenic a starter crossed 11 seasons.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Teddy Bridgewater (10) during an NFL crippled against the Carolina Panthers connected Dec. 21, 2025, astatine Bank of America Stadium successful Charlotte, N.C. (Icon Sportswire)

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"I've known Teddy a agelong clip and the quality being is unbelievable," Campbell said. "Certainly, the player, everything that he's about. The benignant of teammate helium is, the mode helium prepares ... ever played the crippled up present and had a immense heart.

"He's going to beryllium missed."