The sun has officially set on ' football career.The former Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback candidly announced his retirement on the podcast on Tuesday when asked about potentially signing with a team this season."I have not touched a football since January," Bortles Mason Crosby Jersey said. "I have officially retired."Bortles hadn't played an official NFL snap since the 2019 season when he was 's backup with the Rams. The 30-year-old bounced around multiple practice squads since, including stops in Denver, Los Angeles, Green Bay and New Orleans.Despite signing a reserve/future contract with New Orleans this past January, the Saints with Bortles after the club inked and this Corey Bojorquez Jersey offseason. Bortles dre sed for the Saints' Week 16 lo s versus the Dolphins last season, but didn't see action as 's emergency backup."I didn't tell anybody I retired," he said on Tuesday. "A couple of months ago, probably, just didn Charles Woodson T Shirts 't tell anyone. So, I gue s you guys are kind of the first to hear it publicly, maybe?"Bortles' pro career thrived intermittently in Jacksonville after the UCF product was selected by the Jaguars with the in the 2014 NFL Draft. The gunslinger set single-season franchise records in pa sing yards (4,428), touchdowns (35) and completions (368) along an impre sive three-year stretch from 2015 to 2017, which culminated in an appearance in the AFC Championship Game versus the New England Patriots.The sequel to that 2017 playoff run fizzled the Whitney Mercilus Jersey following season, when Bortles was benched by Week 13 in favor of and released from the team after that season before landing in Royce Newman Jersey L.A.In five seasons with the Jaguars (75 games; 24-49 record), Bortles threw for 17,646 yards on 1,561 completions with 103 touchdowns and 75 interceptions. Each of those marks rank second on the Jaguars' all-time pa sing records behind .
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