{"id":46659,"date":"2018-08-01T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=46659"},"modified":"2021-03-18T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T01:49:15","slug":"indianapolis-colts-offensive-lineman-jack-mewhort-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/08\/01\/indianapolis-colts-offensive-lineman-jack-mewhort-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts Offensive Lineman Jack Mewhort Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MewhJa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Mewhort<\/a><\/strong> gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/colts\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> some unexpected news on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old offensive lineman announced that he&#8217;s retiring from the NFL after four seasons. Mewhort had been plagued by injury issues with his knees during the previous two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank the Irsay family and the entire Colts organization for giving me the opportunity to live a childhood dream,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colts.com\/news\/jack-mewhort-retires-from-nfl-i-will-always-bleed-blue\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mewhort said in a team release<\/a>. \u201cThe fans and the city of Indianapolis have treated me like one of their own, and I am forever grateful. Wearing the Horseshoe was one of the biggest honors I have ever known, and I will always bleed blue. Go Colts!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 4 seasons with the Colts, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackmewhort?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jackmewhort<\/a> is retiring from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We thank Jack for his contributions on and off the field: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o1nbT4YSkC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/o1nbT4YSkC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IBSAIa4omQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/IBSAIa4omQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Colts\/status\/1024737889219948545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Jack Mewhort Announces Retirement From NFL After Four Seasons<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Mewhort managed just 15 appearances combined during the 2016 and 2017 seasons, all starts. It included a mere five last season as he continued to struggle with knee issues.<\/p>\n<p>But prior to that, Mewhort was a fixture on the Colts offensive line. He appeared in 17 games as a rookie combining regular season and playoffs as Indy advanced to the AFC Championship Game. One year later, he started all 16 games in a season where the Colts finished 8-8.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his injury issues, the Colts signed Mewhort to a one-year deal in the off-season. It was hoped that his veteran presence would help shore up a unit needing improvement with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LuckAn00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Luck<\/a><\/strong> now fully healthy. Mewhort reportedly saw some first-team reps at left tackle during the first few days of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>But this recent news means that Indy will officially place him on the reserve\/retired list.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts drafted Mewhort in the second round (59th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft. It came after a standout collegiate career at Ohio State where Mewhort made first-team all-Big Ten on two occasions and earned first-team All-American honors as a senior.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Wce1HysPQFVW7aHzT2J58Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/826496502\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Wce1HysPQFVW7aHzT2J58Q',sig:'2SMNgk859q8vv89MoBJpZEgZwMz3KK4pQBZ0Uon0Dkw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'826496502',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four seasons with the Indianapolis Colts, offensive lineman Jack Mewhort is retiring with persistent knee issues cutting his NFL career short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":46667,"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":[12,36],"tags":[1619,7421],"class_list":["post-46659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colts","category-nfl-news","tag-chris-ballard","tag-indianapolis-colts-roster"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46659","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}