{"id":173035,"date":"2026-02-11T05:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:44:16","slug":"rams-offensive-tackle-rob-havenstein-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173035\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams offensive tackle Rob Havenstein announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For nearly all of his 11 seasons, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/rob-havenstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rob Havenstein<\/a> was a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rams<\/a> mainstay at right tackle.<\/p>\n<p>He started two Super Bowls, winning one, and provided sage wisdom and experience for younger players in what would be his final season in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Havenstein, 33, announced he was retiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a ride it\u2019s been!\u201d Havenstein wrote in a post on Instagram. \u201cI can look back on my career and smile knowing I have given everything I had and more to the game I love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn saying that, I am officially retiring from the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Havenstein, the longest-tenured Rams player on the roster last season, thanked his teammates and coaches, the Rams organization and his parents and wife for their support.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 Havenstein, grew up in Maryland and was a second-round pick by the Rams out of Wisconsin in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He started 13 games as a rookie, and then moved with the team from St. Louis to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Havenstein started 148 regular-season games and 13 playoff games, including the Rams\u2019 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium to cap the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>Due to injuries, Havenstein was limited to 14 games in 2023, 11 in 2024 and seven this past season.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the four-time captain was a constant presence, and helped Warren McClendon Jr. develop into a consistent starter.<\/p>\n<p>After the season, coach Sean McVay described Havenstein and tight end Tyler Higbee, who also completed the final year of his contract, as \u201call-time Rams.\u201d McVay said the team would give the players time to digest the season and decide what might be next.<\/p>\n<p>For Havenstein, that is retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this chapter ends,\u201d he wrote, \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more grateful, hopeful, and excited to see what comes next!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For nearly all of his 11 seasons, Rob Havenstein was a Rams mainstay at right tackle. He started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6429,10951,423,82763,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,7087,82764,82765,8523,278,19174,34760,427,8934,4609],"class_list":{"0":"post-173035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-coach-sean-mcvay","10":"tag-game","11":"tag-havenstein","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-los-angeles-times","19":"tag-parent","20":"tag-rams-mainstay","21":"tag-rams-organization","22":"tag-retirement","23":"tag-season","24":"tag-st-louis","25":"tag-super-bowl-lvi","26":"tag-team","27":"tag-victory","28":"tag-wife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}