{"id":4796,"date":"2016-10-24T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:29:14","slug":"arian-foster-announces-nfl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/10\/24\/arian-foster-announces-nfl-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Back Arian Foster Announces NFL Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly eight seasons, running back\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FostAr00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arian Foster<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has announced his retirement from the <strong>National Football League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arian Foster is calling it a career: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RuiercaM5M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/RuiercaM5M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MIlFw5QXnm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MIlFw5QXnm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/790709666531639296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Running Back Arian Foster\u00a0Announces NFL Retirement<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;This game has been everything to me&#8230; my therapy, my joy, my solace, and my enemy,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uninterrupted\/status\/790705945772830720\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foster wrote via Uninterrupted.com<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned love every facet of this game, from peak of accomplishment to the gutter of criticism. And it all makes the ride worthwhile. I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to play many successful years in this league. I&#8217;ve given a lot to this game and given up a lot for it. But it has returned to me more than I could have ever asked for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Foster was the starter for his final three seasons at the <strong>University of Tennessee<\/strong>. Quickly, Foster&#8217;s name spread like wildfire and he became their all-time leading rusher. He\u00a0was signed by the <strong>Houston Texans<\/strong> after going un-drafted in the <strong>2009 NFL Draft<\/strong>.\u00a0After spending seven seasons with the team, Foster\u00a0eventually became the Texans all-time leading rusher with 6,472 yards and 54 rushing touchdowns. After being released by the Texans early in the 2016 off-season, he\u00a0signed a one-year contract with the <strong>Miami Dolphins<\/strong> just a few short months later.<\/p>\n<p>Foster had missed time in his collegiate and professional career due to injuries.\u00a0In 2013, he injured his back despite playing the first half of the regular season&#8217;s games.\u00a0He made a rather impressive comeback campaign the following season, compiling\u00a0a total of 1,573 yards and 13 touchdowns. In 2015, Foster went down once again with a torn\u00a0Achilles tendon, ultimately ending his season. He was released at the\u00a0conclusion of the season.<\/p>\n<p>After Foster signed with the Dolphins, many expected yet another comeback season but that dream quickly ended\u00a0after he suffered a groin injury, only playing two of the seven games of the season.\u00a0According to Foster, his history of injuries played a significant factor in his retirement from the league.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year old\u00a0retires with a grand total of 8,873 yards and 68 touchdowns.<\/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\/491898526\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 69.023569% 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\/491898526?et=kbIS7THDQyhAPRUA0VfQ4g&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=nvGaLSZXwkEbl6wfa4cimgT0o2KOmtW6oodCDnMX448=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending nearly eight seasons the National Football League, running back Arian Foster announced his retirement from the NFL on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":4799,"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":[36,14,4],"tags":[682,50,406,61,114,89,40],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-texans","category-dolphins","tag-afc-east","tag-afc-south","tag-arian-foster","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}