According to The Athletic<\/a>, Huff said the move to retire was a family decision and something he and his older brother, Jordan, had been thinking about for a couple of years.\u00a0<\/p>\nJets defensive end Bryce Huff jumps with a medicine ball during practice in Florham Park, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to save a lot of lives and protect a lot of companies,\u201d Huff told the outlet this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Huff, now 28, said he and his brother have been building a company, Naberstone, for over two years, and that it\u2019s going well so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Huff, who was a 2024 Super Bowl Champ with the Philadelphia Eagles, said the company has six employees and has already landed one \u201cpretty big\u201d customer. Naberstone is also discussing deals with others, such as the U.S. military, a major waste recycling company and groups in Europe and Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Huff hopes the company addresses a growing issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything is slowly but surely containing batteries, from our cars to our tools to bikes, you name it,\u201d Huff added. \u201cThe biggest risk with batteries is the way they ignite if they were to take on some type of damage or malfunction or short circuit. One cell in the battery combusts\u2026 and then it\u2019s just like a chain reaction throughout the battery.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jets defensive end Bryce Huff speaks with the media after practice at training camp in Florham Park, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
Even when Huff and his brother were playing football growing up, he said they were always thinking big picture and were \u201centhralled with science and entrepreneurship.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Until one of his favorite professors was laid off due to budget cuts, Huff studied mechanical engineering at Memphis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing into the NFL, I couldn\u2019t really put my love for engineering to good use,\u201d Huff said. \u201cBut now I feel like since we\u2019re working with engineers on a day-to-day basis, it\u2019s just as good as being an engineer myself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bryce Huff celebrates after Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill is sacked by middle linebacker C.J. Mosley during the first half of the Jets\u2019 win on Oct. 3, 2021 at MetLife Stadium. AP<\/p>\n
Following four years at Memphis, Huff joined the Jets in 2020 as an undrafted free agent and had 17.5 sacks in four seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His breakout season came in 2023, when he had a career-high 10 sacks under head coach and defensive guru Robert Saleh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Huff then signed a three-year, $51 million deal with the Eagles in 2024, but struggled to find his footing in Philadelphia with just 2.5 sacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was then traded to the 49ers<\/a> in May 2025, where he spent just a season before retiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Huff might not be tackling football players anymore, but he\u2019s moved on to tackling an important environmental…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5702,349,1239,560,99],"class_list":["post-740318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740318","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=740318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}