Philip Rivers confirms second NFL retirement with brief Indianapolis Colts comeback over
Philip Rivers is officially done with the NFL after announcing his retirement from football for a second time.
The 44-year-old quarterback, who first retired back in 2020, was sensationally brought back to the NFL earlier this month as the Indianapolis Colts scrambled for an emergency signal caller.
Yet after going 0-3 in his three starts, and with rookie Riley Leonard set to replace him for the final game of the regular season against the Houston Texans this weekend, he is now calling it a career for good.
During an appearance on FanDuel’s ‘Up & Adams’ show, Rivers was urged by host Kay Adams to not say he’s ‘done’ just yet on the basis that he can ‘still chuck it’.
But he responded: ‘Hell no, I am [done].’
Adams then asked when he knew he was done, to which he replied: ‘I knew I was done in 2020.’
Philip Rivers is officially done with the NFL after announcing his retirement for a second time
The quarterback, 44, confirmed his career is over to Kay Adams on her ‘Up & Adams’ show
She argued: ‘But hold on, you weren’t [done in 2020] so I don’t know if I should believe you now!’
‘This was just… everything just lined up right,’ Rivers said about coming out of retirement with the Colts. ‘If I just made up a team, I don’t mean the Chicago Bears or the Minnesota Vikings, but had someone like that called there was no chance.
‘[Indianapolis] was a place I’d been, a team I was familiar with, the offense was exactly the same, the coach I knew… all those things just made it the perfect storm.
‘I don’t see [the desire to play on] being there. My mum asked me the same question. She was like, “So if someone wanted you to play next year would you consider it?” And I was like, “No way.”‘
He then added: ‘I’m back to the sideline. This was a fun three-week blur that nobody saw coming, including myself, and that’ll be it.’
