Two-time Super Bowl champion Shaq Barrett is stepping down from the NFL

Linebacker Shaq Barrett, a twice Super Bowl champion with the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Denver Broncos, announced his retirement on the weekend.

Jul 20, 2024 08:45 PM

Jul 20, 2024, 04:45 PM ET

Linebacker Shaquil Barrett who was twice Super Bowl champion with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Denver Broncos, announced his retirement on Saturday.

“I’m ready to shift my full focus to my wife and kids and helping them realize there dreams,” Barrett wrote in his Instagram post. “I’ve been contemplating this for some time and my decision is never more clear than the moment it’s at. “

Barrett The Barrett signed an agreement for one year with the Miami Dolphins in March following his let go by the Buccaneers in the cost-cutting strategy.

the 31-year old Barrett was part of five seasons with Tampa with the exclusion of the 2020 season which culminated in the Super Bowl title with quarterback Tom Brady at the helm.

Barrett and his family were struck by a tragic loss in the April of 2023 when his daughter of two years Arrayah was killed in his family’s the pool. Barrett returned to the pool towards the beginning of the 2023 season and logged 4.5 bags of tackles and 52 overall that included three individual tackles.

A undrafted free-agent of Colorado State in 2015, Barrett has 59 career sacks in nine seasons with the Bucs and the Broncos as well as winning his first Super Bowl title in 2015.

He was a dominant force in the NFL by registering a record-breaking 19.5 sacks in 2019, the first year that he played for Tampa Bay. Barrett was a double-digit sacker just once more 2021, and an overall total of 10.

After the deportation of Emmanuel Ogbah and losing Andrew Van Ginkel to the market for free agency, and Andrew Van Ginkel to free agency The Dolphins appointed Barrett to add experience in their outside linebackers ‘ space. They also put their players Jaelan Phillips, and Bradley Chubb on the physically and mentally unfit to complete the schedule prior to the start at the start of training camp the 23rd of July. This set the stage for Barrett to assume important tasks until they are back.

After Barrett’s retirement departure Newcomers Chop Robinson as well as Mo Kamara are the current team’s two best edge rushers. The veteran Cameron Goode was included on the PUP list along with Phillips as well as Phillips as well as Chubb.

HTML0Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN has been an author on this report.