{"id":29406,"date":"2025-07-29T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29406\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:12:08","slug":"im-done-nfl-running-back-announces-surprise-retirement-at-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29406\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m Done’ – NFL Running Back Announces Surprise Retirement At 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I’m Done’ – NFL Running Back Announces Surprise Retirement At 24<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A young NFL running back has announced his retirement a couple of weeks ahead of the 2025 regular season.<\/p>\n

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The 2025 NFL regular season is a little more than a month away. Preseason games are scheduled to start this week. Teams have begun to report for training camp, with rosters trimming down ahead of Week 1.<\/p>\n

One notable NFL team has lost a running back to retirement, at the surprising age of 24 years old.<\/p>\n

Zach Evans, a 24-year-old running back from Ole Miss, has decided to retire. He made his decision official on Monday evening, July 28, according to reports.<\/p>\n

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The Jets announced the official roster move on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

From the report:<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jets placed RB Zach Evans on the reserve\/retried list.<\/p>\n

Evans (5-11, 211) signed a reserve\/futures contract with the Green & White on Jan. 6. He played 10 games for the Rams last season and rushed 9 times for 19 yards before joining the Jets’ practice squad on Dec. 18. A sixth-round pick (No. 215 overall) of the Rams in the 2023 NFL Draft, Evans played collegiately at TCU and Ole Miss.<\/p>\n

Evans had\u00a09 rushes for 19 yards during the 2024 season, while playing with the Los Angeles Rams. He joined the New York Jets practice squad later in the year.<\/p>\n

The former Ole Miss Rebels standout has decided to call it a career on Monday.<\/p>\n

‘I’m Done’ – NFL Running Back Announces Surprise Retirement At 24<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Jul 29, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Jul 29, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I’m Done’ – NFL Running Back Announces Surprise Retirement At 24 originally appeared on The Spun. A young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[27963,64,63,1263,1235,593,27962,27966,27965,85,20004,27964],"class_list":["post-29406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-atlantic-health-jets-training-center","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-regular-season","tag-ole-miss","tag-preseason-games","tag-sports","tag-the-jets","tag-zach-evans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}