{"id":430490,"date":"2023-03-21T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430490"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:58:19","slug":"patriots-linebacker-hightower-retired","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/patriots-linebacker-hightower-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Linebacker Hightower announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hightower (33) wrote a letter using the famous platform \u201cThe Players&#8217; Tribune\u201d to call it a career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3x Super Bowl Champion LB Dont&#39;a Hightower announces his retirement after 11 years in the NFL. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXGI9nfucT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wXGI9nfucT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1638187057045467136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dont&#8217;a, who spent his whole career with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-england-patriots\/\">New England Patriots<\/a>, can be proud because he won 3 Super Bowl titles alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/tom-brady\/\">Tom Brady<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I can\u2019t believe it\u2026. I am a 3 Super Bowl champion,&#8221; Hightower wrote. &#8220;Pretty good for a child from Tennessee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dont&#8217;a was drafted back in the 2012 NFL Draft with the twenty-fifth overall pick. Hightower was picked from Alabama, where he won 2 BCS National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>His career includes 117 games from 2012 to 2021 (except for 2020, where he didn\u2019t play). His stats are 569 tackles, 67 Quarterback hits, and 27 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared twice in the Pro Bowl \u2013 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hightower (33) wrote a letter using the famous platform \u201cThe Players&#8217; Tribune\u201d to call it a career. 3x Super Bowl Champion LB Dont&#39;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":430491,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17487],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18359,18130],"acf":{"announce":"The veteran Dont'a Hightower, who won 3 Super Bowls with the Patriots, retired.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430490"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430490"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}