{"id":732751,"date":"2026-06-12T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732751\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:56:09","slug":"frank-ragnow-has-closed-the-door-on-an-nfl-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732751\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Ragnow has closed the door on an NFL return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Ragnow said Friday that he didn\u2019t want to retire. His body just didn\u2019t give him a choice.<\/p>\n<p>He announced his retirement last June and attempted a comeback Nov. 29 but failed a physical with a torn hamstring. <\/p>\n<p>Ragnow, 30, spoke for the first time since calling it quits after seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo shoot it to you straight, I was trying to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2026\/06\/12\/frank-ragnow-retired-detroit-lions\/90527162007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will myself to play<\/a>. I was,\u201d Ragnow said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. \u201cAnd my body was telling me otherwise and I was just like in like paralysis, if you will. I did not plan on retiring in the middle of the summer, believe it or not. It was like I was trying to get like, \u2018You can do it for the guys, for the fans; it\u2019s who you are.\u2019 But it\u2019s just like I was uncomfortable, and it\u2019s one of those things where you have a couple kids, and I don\u2019t want a sob story. I\u2019m OK. I\u2019m going to be completely fine and everything. But it\u2019s one of those things like, I don\u2019t know, is the juice worth the squeeze thing and to me ultimately it came down to that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowler felt guilty at leaving his teammates, but said he made a \u201chorrid\u201d decision to try to come back last season.<\/p>\n<p>He has officially closed the door on ever playing again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019d say so,\u201d Ragnow said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Ragnow said Friday that he didn\u2019t want to retire. His body just didn\u2019t give him a choice.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-732751","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\/732751","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=732751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}