INDIANAPOLIS — 9-time Professional Bowler and two-time first-team All-Professional offensive sort out Jason Peters is retiring after 21 NFL seasons and transitioning right into a entrance workplace position with Seattle, Seahawks GM John Schneider stated Tuesday.
Talking on the NFL scouting mix in Indianapolis, Schneider stated Peters will function an assistant to Mo Kelly, the Seahawks’ vice chairman of participant affairs.
The 43-year-old Peters spent the previous two years in Seattle, the place he appeared in eight video games in 2023 and spent final season on the apply squad earlier than touchdown on injured reserve in December.
Peters is finest identified for the 11 seasons he spent with the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he received the Tremendous Bowl for the 2017 season.
His retirement ends a stellar profession for a participant who broke into the NFL in 2004 with the Buffalo Payments as an undrafted free agent out of Arkansas, the place he started as a defensive lineman earlier than switching to tight finish.
The 6-foot-4, 300-plus-pound Peters started his profession as a Payments tight finish earlier than changing to play sort out the next offseason. He began 10 video games at proper sort out in 2005 and received the job the next yr over former first-round choose Mike Williams. He took over at left sort out in 2007, when he earned his first of 4 second-team All-Professional choices.
A contract dispute ultimately led to the Payments buying and selling Peters to Philadelphia within the spring of 2009. He spent 12 years with the Eagles, together with lacking your entire 2012 season with a torn Achilles’ tendon.
Peters went on to play the 2021 season in Chicago and the next yr in Dallas. Total, Peters had 221 begins in 248 profession video games.