{"id":226444,"date":"2025-10-15T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/226444\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:10:09","slug":"browns-david-bell-retires-from-nfl-cites-off-field-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/226444\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns’ David Bell retires from NFL, cites off-field injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel OyefusiOct 14, 2025, 04:57 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Daniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN, he covered the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald, as well as the Baltimore Ravens for The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Browns<\/a> wide receiver David Bell<\/a> announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a social media post<\/a>, Bell said, “I was blindsided by an off-field injury that was beyond my control, which put my football future in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

“After consulting with medical experts and praying, I accept that continuing to play football would literally risk life and limb.”<\/p>\n

Bell, 24, was placed on the non-football injury list to open training camp. He last played in Week 2 of the 2024 season, when he suffered a season-ending hip injury.<\/p>\n

Bell, a 2022 third-round draft pick, caught 41 passes for 408 yards and three touchdowns in parts of three seasons with the Browns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel OyefusiOct 14, 2025, 04:57 PM ET CloseDaniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-226444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}