{"id":426581,"date":"2026-01-22T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:36:07","slug":"detroit-lions-tackle-dan-skipper-announces-retirement-after-eight-nfl-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426581\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions tackle Dan Skipper announces retirement after eight NFL seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/dan-skipper\/258743\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/dan-skipper\/258743\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Skipper<\/a>\u2019s career is at an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/detroit-lions\/308\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/detroit-lions\/308\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> tackle announced his retirement on Thursday following eight NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c[Twenty-four] years of putting on pads and a helmet every fall,\u201d Skipper wrote on Instagram. \u201cThis year, I\u2019ll trade that out to pursue a career on the other side in coaching. The memories and experiences that the NFL has brought me and my family are hard to put into words. Thankful for every person that has been a part of my journey. It\u2019s time for me to \u2018report\u2019 as retired (Sorry, I had to do it one last time!).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Arvada, CO, Skipper signed as an undrafted free agent out of Arkansas. He went on to appear in 69 games for the Lions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/houston-texans\/306\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/houston-texans\/306\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a>. He scored his first and only career touchdown in a 48-42 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/buffalo-bills\/296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/buffalo-bills\/296\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> on Dec. 12, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Skipper\u2019s career is at an end. The 31-year-old Detroit Lions tackle announced his retirement on Thursday following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[712,49,48,178186,104636,514,82],"class_list":["post-426581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dan-skipper-sports-football-player-player-statscom-744432","tag-detroit-lions-sports-football-team-team-statscom-334","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426581","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=426581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}