{"id":840701,"date":"2026-08-02T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:08:13","slug":"saints-jalynn-polk-retires-from-nfl-at-age-24-wr-was-patriots-2nd-round-draft-pick-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840701\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints&#8217; Ja&#8217;Lynn Polk Retires from NFL at Age 24, WR Was Patriots&#8217; 2nd-Round Draft Pick in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Wideout Ja&#8217;Lynn Polk has retired from the NFL and the New Orleans Saints placed him on the reserve\/retired list Sunday, according to NFL reporter <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeTriplett\/status\/2084011089113632907\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mike Triplett<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">As Triplett noted, the move came as a surprise given that Polk &#8220;participated throughout the entire offseason up until he was absent Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">NFL reporter Nick Underhill offered more details on Polk&#8217;s decision:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The 24-year-old was a second-round pick of the New England Patriots at the 2024 NFL draft but didn&#8217;t make much of an impact as a rookie, registering 12 catches for 87 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Pats then traded him and a seventh-rounder to the Saints for a sixth-round pick in Sept. 2025, but he didn&#8217;t play at all last season due to a shoulder injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Chris Olave is the main man in New Orleans&#8217; passing attack, but a number of players have the chance to carve out a significant role behind him, including first-round pick Jordyn Tyson, Devaughn Vele and rookies Bryce Lance and Barion Brown. Polk was set to be among the players looking to find his niche in New Orleans before Sunday&#8217;s surprising news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wideout Ja&#8217;Lynn Polk has retired from the NFL and the New Orleans Saints placed him on the reserve\/retired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-840701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840701","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=840701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}