{"id":5171,"date":"2016-10-31T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:16:46","slug":"wide-receiver-andre-johnson-announces-nfl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/10\/31\/wide-receiver-andre-johnson-announces-nfl-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide Receiver Andre Johnson Announces NFL Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 14 seasons in the <strong>National Football League<\/strong>, <strong>Tennessee Titans<\/strong> wide receiver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JohnAn02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Andre Johnson<\/strong><\/a> has announced his retirement from the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WR Andre Johnson has informed us of his decision to retire from the NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FUeoFykAQp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/FUeoFykAQp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YXCOaiJLTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YXCOaiJLTR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennessee Titans (@Titans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Titans\/status\/793097050694889472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Wide Receiver Andre Johnson Announces NFL Retirement<\/h2>\n<p>The news of Johnson\u2019s retirement doesn\u2019t come totally unexpected, although it\u2019s rare for most to retire mid-season. &#8220;Going back to his days at the University of Miami, Andre was one of the most impressive receivers I&#8217;ve scouted,&#8221; Titans General Manager <strong>Jon Robinson<\/strong>\u00a0said in a statement <a href=\"http:\/\/m.titansonline.com\/news\/article-4\/Andre-Johnson-Retiring-from-the-NFL\/792d52f5-067e-4145-a03e-7b4606a4e40a\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> on the teams website. Johnson played his collegiate career at the <strong>University of Miami,\u00a0<\/strong>becoming one of the most prestigious receivers in the country, and is now ranked seventh\u00a0on the\u00a0team&#8217;s\u00a0all-time receiving yards list. Eventually, he was inducted into the university\u2019s sports Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was drafted by the <strong>Houston Texans<\/strong> with the third overall pick in the <strong>2003 NFL Draft<\/strong>. Johnson followed his promising freshman performance with a 1,142 yard and six touchdown sophomore season. In his 12 seasons with the Texans, he broke numerous franchise records, including becoming their all-time leading receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s tenure in Houston came to an end at the conclusion of the 2014 season when he was cut by the team after a failed attempt to seek a trade. Later, he signed with the <strong>Indianapolis Colts<\/strong> on a three-year contract before being cut by the end of the season, finishing his short career in Indianapolis with 500 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Many expected a retirement out of Johnson following his release from the Colts, but a few months later he signed with the Tennessee Titans, to much surprise, on a two-year contract. His time in Tennessee also came to a quick end after he decided to retire mid-way into his 14th season.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson joins former teammate, running back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FostAr00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arian Foster<\/strong><\/a>, who also\u00a0walked away\u00a0mid-way into his first season with the <strong>Miami Dolphins<\/strong>. Johnson retires with 70 touchdowns, and currently sits tenth all-time with\u00a014,185 receiving yards in his\u00a0National Football League career.<\/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\/176919698\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 63.973064% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: inline-block; position: absolute;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/176919698?et=7oukRGNWRlpCaz_HadP73A&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=Q1CsFyl2djg-H7WayTx2HoRMYodqtJ0KwjMtvSmYNwE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 14 seasons in the National Football League, Tennessee Titans wide receiver Andre Johnson has announced his retirement from the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":5189,"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":[14,2,36,11],"tags":[50,995,61,114,56,40,58],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texans","category-featured","category-nfl-news","category-titans","tag-afc-south","tag-andre-johnson","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee-titans"],"modified_by":"David McCaffery","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","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=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}