{"id":1537766,"date":"2022-11-13T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1537766"},"modified":"2022-11-13T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:10:06","slug":"average-retirement-age-of-nfl-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/average-retirement-age-of-nfl-player\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Average Retirement Age of an NFL Player?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The NFL is a difficult league to survive in, let alone become a star<\/a>. Every year, a new draft class brings in hundreds of players eager to make their gridiron dreams come true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the reality is that most players have fairly short careers<\/a> due to the intense level of competition and physical toll of the sport — that's assuming they have any careers to speak of. Not everybody can be Tom Brady<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For the rank-and-file player, being in the league when you turn 30 is an accomplishment in and of itself.\u00a0Here's more about the average age of retirement in the NFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Investing Fuse<\/a>, the average NFL career lasts 3.3 years<\/a>. The average age of players forced out of the game — being able to retire formally is a luxury many people don't get — is 27 years old. Both of these numbers are shorter than the same statistics for the NBA<\/a> (five years, 28 years old), MLB (five years, 29.5 years old), and NHL (six years, 28.2 years old).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe average NFL career is not very long<\/h2>\n\n\n\n