It was fun while it lasted! Philadelphia Eagles DE Brandon Graham announced his retirement from football on Tuesday at a press conference at the team’s facility.
The 15-year veteran, who played in 206 regular season games, the most in franchise history, and won two Super Bowls with the Eagles, spent his entire career in Philadelphia.
The 36-year-old, who missed time due to a torn triceps, played 11 games for the Eagles last season. Graham missed the last six games of the regular season and three playoff games before returning to play against the Chiefs in Super Bowl 59, where he would re-tear his triceps muscle.
He finished the 2024 season with 3.5 sacks and his career with 76.5 sacks, which is third in franchise history.
Graham recorded a career-best 11.0 sacks during the 2022 season when he helped lead the Eagles to an appearance in Super Bowl LVII. He earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2020 after leading the Eagles in sacks (8.0), TFLs (13), and pressures (36), and received Associated Press second-team All-Pro honors in 2016.
The 13th overall pick by the Eagles in the 2010 NFL Draft, Graham had one of the defining moments in franchise history when he had a strip-sack of Tom Brady in Super Bowl 52. This play led to the Eagles winning their first Super Bowl and cemented Graham’s legacy in the city of Philadelphia.
Graham will forever be loved in Philadelphia, and hopefully, he’ll have some type of role with the organization moving forward.
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