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Veteran wide receiver Robert Woods<\/a>, who played 13 years after he was selected in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft<\/a>, announced his retirement on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n “After 27 unforgettable years of pouring my heart into this game, and 13 incredible years in the NFL<\/a> — it’s time for me to step away from playing the sport that has given me everything,” Woods wrote on Instagram. “Football has never just been a game to me — it has been my passion, my purpose, and my lifelong dream. I cherished every moment my cleats touched the grass. Every time I stepped onto the field, I was determined to leave a piece of myself in every snap.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Woods signed a one-day contract Tuesday to retire as a member of the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Woods had not appeared in a regular season game since 2024, his second year with the Houston Texans<\/a>. He was initially drafted out of USC by the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, where he played his first four seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n Woods signed with the Rams in March 2017 ahead of coach Sean McVay’s first season with the franchise. He appeared in just 12 games but posted a career-high (to that point) 56 catches for 781 yards with five touchdowns. He was the Rams’ top wide receiver in 2018 when they made a run to the Super Bowl<\/a>, where he had five catches for 70 yards. He finished the 2018 campaign with 1,219 yards and six touchdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n Woods was also on the roster when the Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> in Super Bowl 56, though he missed the game itself due to a torn ACL. Woods signed with the Tennessee Titans<\/a> in 2022 and spent one season in Nashville before he signed his two-year contract with the Texans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Woods finished his career with 683 catches for 8,233 yards and 38 touchdowns. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Veteran wide receiver Robert Woods, who played 13 years after he was selected in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1261,1252,1255,1263,593,71930,246298,246299,246297,85,1253],"class_list":["post-486784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-houston-texans","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl","tag-robert-woods","tag-robert-woods-contract","tag-robert-woods-retirement","tag-robert-woods-stats","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486784","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=486784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}