{"id":872555,"date":"2026-10-06T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872555\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:10:14","slug":"marcus-davenport-will-retire-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872555\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Davenport will retire from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran pass rusher Marcus Davenport didn\u2019t request his release from the Bears\u2019 practice squad so that he could sign with another team\u2019s practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Via NFL Network, the 30-year-old Davenport will retire.<\/p>\n<p>He was a first-round pick of the Saints in 2018 (14th overall). He spent five years in New Orleans, one in Minnesota, and two in Detroit before joining the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Davenport has 78 regular-season appearances with 43 starts. He hasn\u2019t played much since leaving the Saints \u2014 19 regular-season games and 11 starts in four seasons. He also has four postseason appearances and one start, all of which came with the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>Davenport has 25.0 career sacks, with a career-high of 9.0 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran pass rusher Marcus Davenport didn\u2019t request his release from the Bears\u2019 practice squad so that he could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-872555","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\/872555","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=872555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}