{"id":84469,"date":"2025-08-15T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84469\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:00:08","slug":"pro-bowler-brandon-scherff-quietly-retires-after-111-million-career-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84469\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Bowler Brandon Scherff quietly retires after $111 million career earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five-time Pro Bowl guard quietly retired earlier this year and it only came out after it was reported on in a spotlight feature done by his alma mater.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Scherff retired from the NFL this summer after 10 years in the NFL, a <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyesports.com\/news\/2025\/08\/6\/2025-iowa-athletics-hall-of-fame-spotlight-brandon-scherff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2025 Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame spotlight feature reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scherff had played seven seasons with the Washington Commanders organization, earning Pro Bowl nods in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36834594\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2177346123.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Scherff (68) started every NFL game he played across 10 seasons, including his final three, which were play with the Jacksonville Jaguars. \" class=\"wp-image-36834594\"  \/>Brandon Scherff (68) started every NFL game he played across 10 seasons, including his final three, which were play with the Jacksonville Jaguars.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The NFL All-Pro \u2014 who earned the nod in 2020 \u2014 spent his last three seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>All told, he made over $111 million over the life of four contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/16729\/brandon-scherff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per Spotrac<\/a>, three with Washington and his final deal with Jacksonville, a three-year, $49.5 million pact in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been something I could never dream of,\u201d he said in the feature. \u201cSometimes I would tell my wife that she has to pinch me, because I\u2019m playing a kid\u2019s game, and being able to do it as a job is pretty amazing. Now, having kids and being able to see them after games is absolutely wonderful. So I would say it\u2019s a dream come true. And I will be forever grateful to have had that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1956084727087071743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport reported<\/a> that teams had been told in the spring that he was retiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scherff was the No. 5 overall pick in 2015 by Washington and during the course of his decade in the league, he played in \u2014 and started \u2014 140 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36834599\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2191351873.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Scherff retires from the NFL as a one-time NFL All-Pro and a five time Pro Bowl honoree due to his performance on the offensive line. \" class=\"wp-image-36834599\"  \/>Brandon Scherff retires from the NFL as a one-time NFL All-Pro and a five-time Pro Bowl honoree due to his performance on the offensive line.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Scherff, a native of Iowa, was essential to Jacksonville\u2019s surprising run to the AFC Divisional Round in the 2022 playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>He will turn 34 years old this coming December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-time Pro Bowl guard quietly retired earlier this year and it only came out after it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[58633,1811,349,99,3851],"class_list":["post-84469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-brandon-scherff","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84469","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=84469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}