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In a shocking announcement this weekend, New Orleans Saints QB, Derek Carr, told the world he is hanging up the cleats and retiring from the NFL.
BREAKING: New Orleans Saints QB Derek Carr has announced his retirement, the team confirms.
— The Athletic (@theathletic.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
After 11 seasons, the 34-year-old mascara-applier is calling it quits, following a season-ending torn labrum last year—requiring a surgery that would’ve forced Carr to miss the 2025 season.
The damage to his shoulder was significant. It would be an uphill battle returning to his peak mediocre form.
Instead of rehabbing and missing another year, Carr elected to leave the game behind.
Here’s what Carr said in his farewell to the game:
“Upon reflection of prayer, and in discussion with (my wife) Heather, I’ve decided to retire from the National Football League,” Carr said in the statement. “For more than 11 years, we have been incredibly blessed, and we are forever grateful and humbled by this experience. It’s difficult to find the right words to express our thanks to all the teammates, coaches, management, ownership, team officials and especially the fans who made this journey so special. Your unwavering support has meant the world to us.”
How will Derek Carr be remembered?
Carr is A 4-time Pro Bowler with a 77-91 career starting record.
In 11 seasons, all of them as the Week 1 starting QB, Derek Carr led his team to the playoffs once.
In 2022, Jon Gruden (pre-email leak) and the Raiders faced the Bengals in the first round of the postseason.
Derek Carr turned the ball over twice.
Cincinnati won.
Duh.
This will be the final play of Derek Carr’s NFL career:
Derek Carr injury #NFL pic.twitter.com/2fQDsA4P1x
— 𝙅 (@J_RicX) December 8, 2024
A face plant that blew his shoulder to smithereens, diving nowhere near the first down marker against the New York Giants.
Derek Carr sucked and I’m glad we can finally give new quarterbacks opportunities to play instead of automatically pencilling in the poster child for ordinariness.
Carr never possessed a superhuman arm, an advanced processing mind to pick apart defenses, cat-like reflexes and agility, a contagious competitive ferociousness that pollinated the locker room.
None of that shit.
He was a regular ass white dude who was decent and religious so team owners liked him enough to keep him around despite his glaring inability to be good at football.
SEEEEE YAAAAAA, DERK.
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