{"id":79630,"date":"2026-10-06T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/philadelphia-eagles-great-lane-johnson-abruptly-retires-citing-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:55:33","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-great-lane-johnson-abruptly-retires-citing-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/philadelphia-eagles-great-lane-johnson-abruptly-retires-citing-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles great Lane Johnson abruptly retires citing \u2018mental health\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Two-time All-Pro won two Super Bowls with Eagles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Johnson says family priorities have changed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>36-year-old started 171 games for Philadelphia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lane Johnson, the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 decorated right tackle and a cornerstone of the franchise for nearly a decade and a half, announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday after 14 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old, a two-time All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowl selection, said in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeKlZ8UBFKf\">posted to social media<\/a> that he had hoped to play one final season but had decided to step away to prioritize his mental health and spend more time with his children and family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/06\/lane-johnson-retirement-philadelphia-eagles-nfl-mental-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time All-Pro won two Super Bowls with Eagles Johnson says family priorities have changed 36-year-old started 171 games for Philadelphia Lane Johnson, the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 decorated right tackle and a cornerstone of the franchise for nearly a decade and a half, announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday after 14 seasons. The 36-year-old, a &#8230; <a title=\"Philadelphia Eagles great Lane Johnson abruptly retires citing \u2018mental health\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/philadelphia-eagles-great-lane-johnson-abruptly-retires-citing-mental-health\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Philadelphia Eagles great Lane Johnson abruptly retires citing \u2018mental health\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}