{"id":25282,"date":"2025-07-26T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25282\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:31:09","slug":"jordan-hicks-eagles-super-bowl-lii-champion-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25282\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Hicks, Eagles Super Bowl LII champion, retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> linebacker Jordan Hicks officially announced his retirement<\/a> from the NFL on Friday.<\/p>\n

Hicks hasn\u2019t played for the Eagles since the 2018 season but he was a starter for them during their first-ever Super Bowl<\/a>-winning season in 2017. <\/p>\n

That is, for the first seven games of that year before suffering a season-ending injury. Hicks all too often struggled to stay healthy in Philly, which contributed to the Eagles allowing him to eventually walk in free agency.<\/p>\n

But Hicks did play pretty well at times when he was healthy. The 2015 third-round pick generated some Defensive Rookie of the Year buzz<\/a> early in his career. Pro Football Focus named him the Eagles\u2019 \u201csecret superstar<\/a>\u201d after the 2016 season.<\/p>\n

Hicks especially tormented the Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, which is kind of funny since he played college football at Texas. Tony Romo never really recovered from the hit he took from a Hicks strip-sack early in 2015<\/a>. Hicks had a big pick-six \u2014 his only career touchdown \u2014 in a 2015 overtime road win in Dallas. Four of his 13 career interceptions came against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

After leaving Philly to sign with the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> in 2019, Hicks\u2019 bad injury luck turned around. He didn\u2019t miss a game until the 2023 season as a member of the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>. He reunited with former Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz on the Cleveland Browns<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

All told, Hicks made 134 starts in 138 career games played (including playoffs) over 10 seasons. According to Over The Cap, his career earnings totaled about $44.6 million (very fitting number<\/a> as a Cowboys Killer). <\/p>\n

On a personal note, I really enjoyed covering Hicks. I found his weekly press conferences back during the 2016 season enjoyable due to his honesty and insight. It\u2019s a shame that \u201cSimba<\/a>\u201d to DeMeco Ryans\u2019 \u201cMufasa\u201d didn\u2019t pan out as a career-long Eagle. Still, he should always be remembered fondly in Philly.<\/p>\n

All the best to Hicks in retirement. <\/p>\n

Of the players to log at least one snap for the Eagles in Super Bowl LII, these ones are currently under contract with an NFL team in 2025:<\/p>\n

Not many left!<\/p>\n

There are some free agents who could conceivably sign with a team and play this season: <\/p>\n

WR Nelson Agholor
\nDB Jalen Mills
\nLB Kamu Grugier-Hill
\nCB Rasul Douglas
\nLS Rick Lovato<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Jordan Hicks officially announced his retirement from the NFL on Friday. Hicks hasn\u2019t played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[12313,6369,49,48,13003,8824,3011,700,5460,20442,8722,20443,2609,514,20444,82,4452],"class_list":["post-25282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-bleeding","tag-bowl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-champion","tag-eagles","tag-from","tag-front-page","tag-green","tag-hicks","tag-jordan","tag-lii","tag-nation","tag-nfl","tag-retires","tag-sports","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282","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=25282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}