Veteran linebacker announces retirement after nine NFL seasons

Alec Ogletree made an effort to play a tenth season final yr, however the veteran linebacker won’t goal to swimsuit up this season. The previous first-round decide announced his retirement.

One of many extra profitable gamers to enter the league from the much-maligned 2013 first spherical, Ogletree secured a Rams extension and began 110 video games throughout a profession spent in St. Louis, Los Angeles, New York (with the Giants and Jets) and Chicago. Ogletree picked up a second-team All-Professional honor (in 2016) and completed his profession as a full-time starter, lining up with the Bears first-stringers all through the 2021 season.

Identified finest for his Rams tenure, the off-ball linebacker started as a No. 30 total decide throughout Jeff Fisher‘s regime. Fisher and then-second-year GM Les Snead signed off on the linebacker in a two-first-rounder Rams draft, which started with Tavon Austin going eighth total. Each gamers fetched extensions from the Rams, however Ogletree made an even bigger affect. His 2016 second-team All-Professional season included a career-high 136 tackles (9 for loss), two interceptions and a compelled fumble.

That exhibiting earned Ogletree a four-year, $42M extension in October 2017. Regardless of the Rams altering HCs by hiring Sean McVay in 2017, they signed off on retaining Ogletree. Though, they reversed course throughout the ’18 offseason by trading the contract to the Giants. Ogletree, who mixed to drive 10 fumbles over his first two seasons, led the Rams in tackles throughout every of the 4 seasons he completed with the group.

The Giants stored the Georgia alum on that contract for 2 seasons, and he posted two pick-sixes throughout his Massive Blue debut slate. The Giants had traded fourth- and sixth-round picks to the Rams for Ogletree and a seventh. A 2020 launch led Ogletree to the Jets, with whom he performed solely two video games. Regardless of the Jets reducing bait in October 2020 and Ogletree not enjoying once more that season, he stepped in as a Bears full-timer to shut out his profession. In 16 Chicago begins, Ogletree made 87 tackles in 2021.

Ogletree, 31, collected simply greater than $40M throughout his NFL run. He added 12 INTs and seven.5 sacks to a resume that features 766 tackles (49 for loss).