Rams four-time Pro Bowl LT Andrew Whitworth to retire after 2021 NFL season?

Los Angeles Rams veteran left tackle Andrew Whitworth is a four-time Pro Bowler twice selected First-team All-Pro. He also turns 40 years old in December and realizes he’s coming to the end of the road.

While Whitworth seems content to return to the Rams for another season, he recently explained on the ‎”Green Light with Chris Long” podcast he likely will soon be ready to walk away. 

“I was like, if I get through (a patella injury in 2013), I want to try to play until 40. And that was just like — I didn’t think that was realistic or that it’d ever happen. But I was like, I want to try to do that,” he said, per Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk. “So this year, to me, it feels like this is it. This is like, I’ve put everything into trying to play this season and play at the level I want to. I feel like this will probably be the end, but I mean, all my closest friends would tell you that I’ve said that for about seven straight years. So I don’t know how believable that is, but it feels like it is.”

Whitworth joined the Rams in March 2017 and signed a new three-year contract with the franchise in March 2020. He missed the final seven regular-season games of the 2020 campaign with torn ligaments in his knee but returned for a pair of postseason contests.