{"id":246408,"date":"2026-07-18T04:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:26:24","slug":"former-steelers-cornerback-announces-retirement-after-eight-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246408\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers cornerback announces retirement after eight seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2078165833029705877?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Levi Wallace<\/a> has announced his retirement from the NFL via his Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWalk-on. Undrafted. 8 years. Retired. Not bad,\u201d Wallace captioned his retirement video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wallace was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent after the 2018 NFL Draft. He started seven games for the Bills as a rookie before earning the full-time starting role opposite Tre\u2019Davious White. In four years with the Bills, Wallace picked off six passes in 52 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wallace signed with the Steelers in 2022, picking off four passes in his first season in Pittsburgh, followed up by a two-interception season in 2023. He last appeared with the Denver Broncos in 13 games during the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Alabama product totaled 12 interceptions in 96 games across an eight-year career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let us know what you think in the comments. Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Levi Wallace has announced his retirement from the NFL via his Instagram. \u201cWalk-on. Undrafted.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853],"class_list":["post-246408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}