Veteran linebacker announces retirement after nine NFL seasons

Alec Ogletree made an effort to play a tenth season final 12 months, however the veteran linebacker won’t goal to swimsuit up this season. The former first-round choose introduced his retirement.

One of the extra profitable gamers to enter the league from the much-maligned 2013 first spherical, Ogletree secured a Rams extension and began 110 video games throughout a profession spent in St. Louis, Los Angeles, New York (with the Giants and Jets) and Chicago. Ogletree picked up a second-team All-Pro honor (in 2016) and completed his profession as a full-time starter, lining up with the Bears first-stringers all through the 2021 season.

Known finest for his Rams tenure, the off-ball linebacker started as a No. 30 general choose throughout Jeff Fisher‘s regime. Fisher and then-second-year GM Les Snead signed off on the linebacker in a two-first-rounder Rams draft, which began with Tavon Austin going eighth overall. Both players fetched extensions from the Rams, but Ogletree made a bigger impact. His 2016 second-team All-Pro season included a career-high 136 tackles (nine for loss), two interceptions and a forced fumble.

That showing earned Ogletree a four-year, $42M extension in October 2017. Despite the Rams changing HCs by hiring Sean McVay in 2017, they signed off on keeping Ogletree. Although, they reversed course during the ’18 offseason by buying and selling the contract to the Giants. Ogletree, who mixed to power 10 fumbles over his first two seasons, led the Rams in tackles throughout every of the 4 seasons he completed with the group.

The Giants stored the Georgia alum on that contract for 2 seasons, and he posted two pick-sixes throughout his Big Blue debut slate. The Giants had traded fourth- and sixth-round picks to the Rams for Ogletree and a seventh. A 2020 launch led Ogletree to the Jets, with whom he performed solely two video games. Despite the Jets slicing bait in October 2020 and Ogletree not taking part in once more that season, he stepped in as a Bears full-timer to shut out his profession. In 16 Chicago begins, Ogletree made 87 tackles in 2021.

Ogletree, 31, collected simply greater than $40M throughout his NFL run. He added 12 INTs and seven.5 sacks to a resume that features 766 tackles (49 for loss).