After a 13-year career that saw him make six Pro Bowls, San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Joe Staley announced his retirement last week.

Staley, who missed nine of 16 regular-season games last season due to a broken leg, admitted that he did not want to retire. However, his body is simply unable to allow him to play at the level he wants to if he wanted to have a quality life after retirement.

The 35-year-old veteran described his frustration with his recent injuries, especially considering the strong season that the 49ers had last year.

“Last year should have been the pinnacle of my career. We had an absolutely unbelievable team from the culture to the coaching staff, front office, the players that were around. And it was like that the whole entire year. But, for me personally, it was really, really difficult because of the injuries,” Joe Staley said in quotes distributed by the team, per NBC Sports.

Staley battled a litany of injuries last season, including a fractured fibula, a broken finger that required surgery and constant neck issues that hindered his ability.

“I had the broken leg which was kind of a weird rehab for that, it wasn’t very straightforward, I had a lot of complications coming back from that. I think they were pretty documented and then I came back and broke the finger, had to have surgery on that and that was just a broken,” the now ex-49ers star said.

“While that happened, I had a back thing and then I’ve had neck stuff that’s been going on for a little bit and it just kind of got worse and worse as the season went on. The last half of the year, not really the last half the year, it was kind of like the last two or three games it started getting progressively worse and then in the playoffs it was really bad, and then kind of culminated with the Super Bowl being the worst.”

Staley, who was with the 49ers during their 2013 Super Bowl loss to the Baltimore Ravens, once again came one game short as the 2019 San Francisco team fell to the Kansas City Chiefs in the most recent Super Bowl.