{"id":230139,"date":"2026-02-24T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/chargers-starter-announces-his-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:37:58","slug":"chargers-starter-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/chargers-starter-announces-his-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers starter announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/los_angeles_chargers\/45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> have another position they need to fill as they head into free agency.<\/p>\n<p> This time, it is finding a new center. On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/bradley_bozeman\/561530\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bradley Bozeman<\/a> announced his decision to retire from the NFL after eight seasons. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 8 seasons in the NFL, I\u2019m ready for my next chapter,&#8221; Bozeman wrote as part of a lengthy retirement message. &#8220;This game has given me so much \u2014 lessons, lifelong friendships, and memories my family will carry forever. I\u2019ve poured everything I had into this journey, and I walk away grateful and proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bozeman was selected in the sixth round of the 2018 NFL Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore_ravens\/31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>. Bozeman then spent the first four seasons of his career in Baltimore before joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/carolina_panthers\/49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/chargers_starter_announces_his_retirement\/s1_127_43509060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Chargers have another position they need to fill as they head into free agency. This time, it is finding a new center. On Monday, Bradley Bozeman announced his decision to retire from the NFL after eight seasons. &#8220;After 8 seasons in the NFL, I\u2019m ready for my next chapter,&#8221; Bozeman wrote as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}