{"id":477105,"date":"2026-02-15T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477105\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:01:07","slug":"indianapolis-colts-2017-draft-pick-announces-nfl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477105\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts 2017 draft pick announces NFL retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former draft pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> in 2017 announced his retirement from the NFL on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Offensive lineman Zach Banner <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wUhWrUlR7H4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">took to his podcast to reveal the news of his retirement<\/a>. Banner hasn&#8217;t appeared in an NFL game since 2021 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/pittsburgh-steelers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Banner was a fourth-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft by the Colts, but never played a regular-season game with the team after being waived in September of his rookie campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He then spent a season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> before heading to Pittsburgh, where he would find a home for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Banner was even set to take on a starting role at right tackle for the Steelers in 2020, but a torn ACL ended his starting dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my first time being the starting right tackle and I tear up my knee in the fourth quarter,&#8221; Banner told\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/02\/completely-broken-zach-banner-describes-emotions-after-season-ending-injury-in-2020\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steelers Depot&#8217;s Joe Clark<\/a>. &#8220;My spirit&#8217;s broken. Absolutely loved that city. Absolutely loved what we were doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the ACL injury, Banner wasn&#8217;t able to recover. The Steelers cut him in 2022, and that was the last we saw from him in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The USC product <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/ex-steelers-ot-works-out-for-bears-after-dropping-70-pounds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">did attempt to make a comeback in 2025<\/a>, garnering interest from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>. However, it didn&#8217;t end up working out.<\/p>\n<p>We wish Banner the best of luck in his post-playing career, as it looks like he will be focusing on media.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former draft pick of the Indianapolis Colts in 2017 announced his retirement from the NFL on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-477105","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\/477105","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=477105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}