{"id":485477,"date":"2024-07-21T04:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485477"},"modified":"2024-07-21T04:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:57:07","slug":"linebacker-barrett-2-time-super-bowl-champ-retires","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/linebacker-barrett-2-time-super-bowl-champ-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Linebacker Barrett, 2-time Super Bowl champ, retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LB Shaquil Barrett, a 2-time Super Bowl champ with the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Denver Broncos, revealed that he is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LB Shaquil Barrett abruptly announced his retirement on social media Saturday, four months after joining the Miami Dolphins in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>During his 10-year career, Barrett won a Super Bowl with both the Denver Broncos and Tampa Bay Buccaneers \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Tp2BJunrM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/1Tp2BJunrM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic NFL (@TheAthleticNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticNFL\/status\/1814778373945659832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that it\u2019s the moment to shift my full focus to my wife and kids and help them realize their dreams,&#8221; the linebacker published on social media. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking about this in the past few months, and the decision has never been more clear than it is at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shaq had inked a 1-year contract with the Dolphins during the offseason after being cut by Tampa Bay in a cost-cutting move.<\/p>\n<p>He spent 5 campaigns with the Buccaneers, including the 2020 season that ended with the Super Bowl title with QB Tom Brady as the leading man in the team.<\/p>\n<p>He and his family suffered a tragedy in April 2023 when his 2-year-old daughter, Arrayah, drowned in the family&#8217;s pool. Barrett returned for the beginning of the 2023 campaign and had almost 5 sacks and 52 combined tackles, including 33 solo tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LB Shaquil Barrett, a 2-time Super Bowl champ with the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Denver Broncos, revealed that he is calling it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485478,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17654,17324,22711],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18425,17873,22712],"acf":{"announce":"Shaq retired from the National Football League with 2 rings.","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\/485477"}],"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=485477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485479,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485477\/revisions\/485479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485477"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485477"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}