{"id":16959,"date":"2025-07-23T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16959\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:49:07","slug":"saints-tight-end-retires-at-age-25-after-just-1-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16959\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints&#8217; tight end retires at age 25 after just 1 NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints already had Tyrann Mathieu&#8217;s retirement on Tuesday, but that wasn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, tight end Dallin Holker announced he is retiring from the NFL, too.<\/p>\n<p>Holker&#8217;s choice is much different. He&#8217;s 25 years old and just completed his first NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>The big target was undrafted after a college career between BYU and Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p>He had three catches in 2024 as he hovered around the fringes of New Orleans&#8217; roster.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({event: &#039;element_click&#039;,item_type: &#039;affiliate link&#039;,item_id: &#039;https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-rookie-qb-shedeur-sanders-subject-second-draft\/cb9a0ed82ec1c845ee8ecee7&#039;,item_name: &#039;Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders could be subject to a &#039;second draft&#039;&#039;,cta_type: &#039;contextual_link&#039;,cta_id: &#039;&#039;});\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-rookie-qb-shedeur-sanders-subject-second-draft\/cb9a0ed82ec1c845ee8ecee7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders could be subject to a &#8216;second draft&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the message Holker <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/D_HOLKER\/status\/1947777883839099007\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared on X<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t thank God enough for the opportunity to live out my dream. I&#8217;m incredibly grateful for my amazing wife and family &#8212; your love and support have meant everything throughout this journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a lot of prayer and conversations with my family and representatives, I&#8217;ve decided to retire from football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank the New Orleans Saints, Colorado State, BYU and Lehi High School for believing in me and giving me the chance to chase a dream I&#8217;ve had since I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past 15 years, football has given me unforgettable memories and lifelong relationships with teammates and coaches &#8212; things I&#8217;ll always hold close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Football will always be a part of me, but I&#8217;m excited to see what this next chapter holds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holker is the latest in a growing list of offseason retirements of players under 30.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints already had Tyrann Mathieu&#8217;s retirement on Tuesday, but that wasn&#8217;t it. Later in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-16959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}