{"id":3392,"date":"2025-07-17T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3392\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:57:08","slug":"former-steelers-wide-receiver-mike-williams-abruptly-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3392\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers wide receiver Mike Williams abruptly retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pittsburgh Steelers and current Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams is retiring from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1945902603579085303\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter<\/a>, Williams&#8217; agent notified the Chargers that he is retiring on Wednesday night. Williams is hanging up his cleats at the age of 30.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was acquired by the Steelers in a trade deadline acquisition with the New York Jets last season, but the move did not pan out.<\/p>\n<p>Over 10 contests (nine regular season, one playoff), Williams tallied 10 catches for 169 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this offseason, Williams rejoined the Chargers, a team he was drafted by in 2017 and spent the first seven seasons of his career with.<\/p>\n<p>However, Williams suffered an undisclosed injury and was unable to take part in mandatory minicamp, an ominous sign for an aging player who has battled some injuries during his career.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was then placed on the physically unable to perform list to begin training camp before his decision to retire.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old finishes his career with 330 receptions for 5,104 yards and 32 touchdowns. His best season came in 2021, when he tallied 1,146 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers and current Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams is retiring from the NFL. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-3392","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\/3392","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=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}