{"id":1294,"date":"2016-09-11T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2016-09-11T22:23:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T02:23:51","slug":"larry-fitzgerald-retiring-after-2016-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/09\/11\/larry-fitzgerald-retiring-after-2016-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Fitzgerald Retiring After 2016 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ian Rapaport<\/strong> has reported that <strong>Arizona Cardinals<\/strong> wide receiver<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FitzLa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry Fitzgerald<\/a><\/strong> will retire after the 2016 NFL season. The 33-year-old \u201chas told people close to him that he expects\u201d this will be his last year in the NFL, according to Rapaport.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth. As a dedicated Arizona Cardinals fan the emotions felt from this news run uncontrollable and oh, so deep. It is an unpleasant amalgam that cuts like a jagged knife straight through the heart.<\/p>\n<h2>Larry Fitzgerald Retiring After 2016 Season<\/h2>\n<p>There has been speculation about his retirement for some time. Actually, Fitzgerald has been asked about it several times in various forms over the past few weeks. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentralsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent Somers<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cFitz\u201d was asked again on Tuesday morning about his plans beyond this season. Fitzgerald responded with a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(General Manager) <strong>Steve Keim<\/strong> saw me in the hallway the other day, he offered me a three, four year extension,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cBut I told him I\u2019m going to have to get back with him in a little bit. We\u2019ll see where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larry Darnell Fitzgerald Jr. has played 12 seasons with the Cardinals. This year will be his 13th. Fitz has spent his entire NFL career as a Cardinal. He was drafted third overall by the Cardinals in 2004. He attended college at <strong>Pittsburgh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald has been to nine Pro Bowls, and made seven straight Pro Bowl appearances from 2007-2013.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald has only missed six games in his entire 12 years with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Fitz led the Cardinals with 109 receptions, 1,215 receiving yards, and nine touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Now at 33 years of age, Fitzgerald is the youngest player to record 1000 catches.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if Fitzgerald is is truly serious about 2016 being his final NFL season, but as of now it looks like it will be.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/507337572\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/507337572?et=dTprF0IMT8Fc2-QpvHPLuQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=aip09Un-h16p9Q2T3X4kwPUGFUh-Ph3jWKkAhVhKEdo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Fitzgerald Retiring After 2016 Season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1638,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[279,61,469,40],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardinals","category-nfl-news","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-football","tag-larry-fitzgerald","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}