The 2018 NFL season may kick off without former Philadelphia Eagles tight end, Brent Celek. The NFL might not even see the free agent veteran on the field ever again, as Celek has expressed a degree of desire to hang his cleats up.
During a recent appearance on 97.5 The Fanatic, Celek admits that he’s been thinking of retirement these days more than he used to shortly after he was released by the Philadelphia Eagles back in March to create some space on the team’s salary cap (h/t NBC Sports Philadelphia).
“I think I'm leaning more toward retirement,” Celek said. “I've had a few offers, but none of them are worth leaving a city that I have been in for 11 years where I won the Super Bowl in my final year. It wouldn't feel right to put another uniform on.”
Logistically, it would be difficult for Celek to come back at this point in the NFL since teams are already in the middle of the preseason, leaving free agents with little time to catch up on memorizing playbooks and overtaking those ahead of them on the depth charts.
If this is really it for the career of Brent Celek, then he’s one of the few lucky players to walk away from the game on the heels of a Super Bowl victory, as he was part of the Eagles squad that took down the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII.
Celek has appeared in 175 games in his NFL career and during that span, has racked up 398 receptions, 4,998 receiving yards, and 31 touchdowns in 11 seasons in the pros – all with the Eagles.
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