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Daniel OyefusiJul 25, 2025, 09:44 AM 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 BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns<\/a> starting linebacker Jordan Hicks<\/a> is retiring after 10 seasons in the NFL, he announced on Instagram on Friday morning.<\/p>\n Hicks, 33, missed the first two days of training camp with what the team called a personal matter.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “Football has given me more than I could have ever imagined,” Hicks wrote in his post. “Purpose, discipline, brotherhood, and a platform to impact others. But most importantly it showed me who I am outside the game.<\/p>\n “I leave this chapter with deep gratitude for every lesson, challenge, and victory. I’m proud of what I accomplished on the field, but even more proud of the man I’ve become because of it.”<\/p>\n Hicks was expected to enter his second season in Cleveland as a leader in the middle of the defense, especially given the loss of Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah<\/a>, who was placed on the reserve\/physically unable to perform the list and will miss the 2025 season because of a neck injury he suffered last October. Hicks’ retirement leaves the Browns without their top-two inside linebackers from the previous season.<\/p>\n With Hicks’ retirement, Devin Bush<\/a>, Mohamoud Diabate<\/a> and second-round pick Carson Schwesinger<\/a> sit atop the linebacker depth chart. Cleveland this offseason also signed veteran linebacker Jerome Baker<\/a>, who has started 90 games in seven seasons.<\/p>\n Hicks was a third-round pick of the Eagles in the 2015 NFL draft and spent the first four seasons of his career in Philadelphia, winning a Super Bowl in 2018. He then had stints with the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> and Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, accumulating five consecutive 100-tackle seasons before he signed with the Browns and reunited with defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who was his DC in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n In his 10-year career, Hicks recorded 952 tackles, 16.5 sacks and 13 interceptions in 134 games played (131 starts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel OyefusiJul 25, 2025, 09:44 AM ET CloseDaniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-36452","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\/36452","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=36452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}