{"id":483320,"date":"2024-05-21T03:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483320"},"modified":"2024-05-21T03:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:59:49","slug":"eagles-wr-parker-retires-after-9-nfl-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/eagles-wr-parker-retires-after-9-nfl-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles WR Parker retires after 9 NFL campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 9 NFL campaigns, Philadelphia Eagles WR DeVante Parker has chosen to retire, the player shared today.<\/p>\n<p>As much as the wide receiver wanted to play football, he decided to spend more time with a family that features 4 children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be with my children, spend quality time with them,&#8221; DeVante shared. &#8220;I want to be there for my kids as much as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parker finished his National Football League career with 369 catches for 5,266 yards and 27 TDs.<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver added that he thinks about the future but has no plans yet what he will do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to rush anything,&#8221; the former Eagles footballer revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters asked him about the most important thing that he remembered about his time in the league, and he answered that it was camaraderie.<\/p>\n<p>Parker added that he felt welcomed no matter what organization he played and that he also thanked Miami for selecting him at the draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeVante Parker has announced his retirement from the NFL. He had this to say in his goodbye:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the Dolphins for drafting me and giving me the opportunity. I always will have love for the Dolphins and their organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Major respect and wish DeVante the best\ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rczO0XNRsG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rczO0XNRsG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; King of Phinland\ud83d\udc2c\ud83d\udc51 (@KingOfPhinland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingOfPhinland\/status\/1792707803657937161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 9 NFL campaigns, Philadelphia Eagles WR DeVante Parker has chosen to retire, the player shared today. As much as the wide receiver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483321,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20167,17324,17123],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[20168,17873,18180],"acf":{"announce":"DeVante will no longer play football after 9 seasons in the league.","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\/483320"}],"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=483320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483322,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483320\/revisions\/483322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483320"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483320"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}