{"id":213210,"date":"2025-10-14T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213210\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:02:08","slug":"charles-leno-former-pro-bowl-offensive-tackle-announces-retirement-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213210\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leno, former Pro Bowl offensive tackle, announces retirement from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Pro Bowl offensive lineman Charles Leno formally announcement his retirement from the NFL<\/a> on Tuesday, nearly two years after his last game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leno announced his retirement on the two-year anniversary that he and his wife Jennifer lost their daughter, Paitynn, due to a miscarriage in a moment that “changed everything for me.” Leno dedicated his retirement announcement to his daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“On that October day in 2023, something in he shifted,” Leno wrote<\/a>\u00a0on social media. “I knew then that I was done with football. Not physically but mentally and emotionally. My priority, my passion, my purpose had changed. My heart now belongs fully to my family. And I knew that one day, when the time was right, I’d make it official.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leno’s NFL<\/a> career began with humble beginnings as a seventh-round pick. Despite that, he made the Bears<\/a>‘ active roster as a rookie and became a full-time starter on Chicago’s offensive line in 2014. In 2018, he was selected to the Pro Bowl while helping the Bears capture an NFC North division title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Leno spent two more seasons with the Bears before playing three seasons in Washington. In all, he played in 149 regular-season games, logging 141 starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An modal of consistency and durability, Leno started in each of his team’s regular season games from 2016-22.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Along with being a Pro Bowl left tackle, Leno was also a Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee, a four-time NFLPA Community MVP and a two-time Alan Page Community Award runner-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Today, I walk away from the game, not with sadness, but he deep gratitude,” Leno wrote. “This isn’t goodbye — it’s just a new beginning.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Former Pro Bowl offensive lineman Charles Leno formally announcement his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1735,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-213210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213210","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=213210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}