{"id":381209,"date":"2026-01-01T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381209\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:26:13","slug":"colts-philip-rivers-is-retiring-from-the-nfl-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381209\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts&#8217; Philip Rivers is retiring from the NFL, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Rivers is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>&#8216; 44-year old QB returned after nearly five years from the NFL to try and rescue Indy&#8217;s season.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers didn&#8217;t play poorly, but the Colts couldn&#8217;t make it to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Rivers is heading back to retirement, likely for good.<\/p>\n<p>He announced his decision in an appearance on Kay Adams&#8217; show on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Philip Rivers is done with the NFL. \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Philip! \ud83d\ude4f <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fXYchblV3X\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fXYchblV3X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kay Adams (@heykayadams) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heykayadams\/status\/2006522162249871704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/eagles-jalen-hurts-big-problem-not-what-used-be\/945d944c1d6b40441f3483ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Hurts has a big problem, and it&#8217;s not what it used to be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rivers played three games, all losses, but performed admirably.<\/p>\n<p>His lines in those three contests:<\/p>\n<p>18-27, 120 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT23-35, 277 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT17-30, 147 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT<\/p>\n<p>If Rivers is done for good, he&#8217;ll finish his career with 63,984 passing yards and 425 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Those both rank in the top-10 all time.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers impressed most people around football with how he still was able to get the job done even after so much time away and at such an advanced age.<\/p>\n<p>Most will look back on this Rivers cameo quite fondly, including the 44-year old QB himself.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers is retiring. Again. The Indianapolis Colts&#8216; 44-year old QB returned after nearly five years from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-381209","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-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381209","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=381209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}