{"id":340172,"date":"2025-12-10T02:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340172\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:33:11","slug":"jason-pierre-paul-never-thought-he-was-done-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340172\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Pierre-Paul never thought he was done playing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been nearly two years since edge rusher Jason Pierre-Paul has appeared in an NFL game, but he said on Tuesday that retirement was never on his mind while he was unsigned. <\/p>\n

Pierre-Paul signed to the Buccaneers\u2019 practice squad and told reporters at a press conference that it was \u201cnot once in my head<\/a> that I\u2019m not going to play football again\u201d during his time away from the game. Pierre-Paul said he would have tried to play in 2026 if nothing came up this year, but \u201cthe opportunity presented itself\u201d to return to the team he helped to a Super Bowl title in the 2020 season. <\/p>\n

Pierre-Paul said that his physical readiness to play matches his desire to get back on the field. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel good,\u201d Pierre-Paul said. \u201cAs far as the training, and I\u2019ve been doing a lot of training with my personal trainer \u2014 he don\u2019t stop, he trains every day. I\u2019m like, \u2018Yo, in football you get a break.\u2019 He\u2019s doing the best job of it and we kept it going and I think he got me in the best shape \u00b1 I won\u2019t say in my whole entire career, but damn near. I\u2019ve seen the results, running around the lake and running sprinters and running drills, I was able to kill the bad drills out there. I think I killed it and I just think staying in shape was one of the main keys and just not giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bucs play on Thursday and it seems unlikely that Pierre-Paul will be jumping into a major role right away but a good showing at practice should provide him with an opportunity to show that he can still get after the quarterback. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been nearly two years since edge rusher Jason Pierre-Paul has appeared in an NFL game, but he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-340172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340172","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=340172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}