Saints QB Derek Carr retired after eleven seasons, as a shoulder injury, the availability of 2025 threatened

By Mark Pulo, Jeff Howe, Vic Tafur and Taskhan Reed

The quarterback from New Orleans Saints, Derek Carr, announced its retirement on Saturday. The team announced a press release. The 34-year-old has to deal with a Labralriss in his right shoulder and has significant degenerative changes to his rotator cuff, said the saints.

“After thinking of prayer and in the discussion with (my wife) Heather, I decided to withdraw from the National Football League,” said Carr in the explanation. “We have been blessed for more than 11 years, and we are grateful and humble from this experience forever. It is difficult to find the right words to thank all teammates, trainers, management, ownership, team officials and in particular fans who have made this trip so special. The world has meant the world to us.”

The retirement will do without Carr on his guaranteed 30 million dollar contract, while the saints do not apply for reimbursement for his 10 million dollar service plan and the signatories of Bonus, confirmed the league's sources.

Statement by Derek Carr: pic.twitter.com/31tdccwrui

– New Orleans Saints (@Saints) May 10, 2025

As an eleven -year -old professional, Carr spent the last two seasons in New Orleans with the Raiders after nine years to start his career, first in Oakland and later in Las Vegas. Carr retires with 35,222 career yards. He started for nine years before he was cut by the last in an apparently endless run of new regime in 2023.

In 2016, Carr led the Raiders to her first playoff appearance since 2002. He took first place in the Yards and touchdowns in Franchise history.

The Raiders selected Carr with No. 36 selection in the 2014 NFL design and he excluded Matt Schaub to win the start job as a rookie. Carry has established himself as a franchise passant when he promoted the Kansas City Chiefs in November in a season for 3,270 yards and 21 touchdowns with an emotional one to achieve the Raiders.

In week 16 of the 2016 season, after led the Raiders to a 12: 3 start and a playoff berth, Carr suffered a fibula fracture, which forced him to Miss Oakland's first post-season game in 16 years, which has lost in the Wildcard round.

Carr finally gave his playoff debut in 2021 after he had brought the Raiders back to the playoffs after a 10: 7 season.

Carrs Raider's legacy

In Carrs, the Raiders had only two Siegersaisons-Sein Record as a starter was 63-79 and many fans held Carr for this. In view of the six coaches for whom he had to play, the terrible design classes of the team and the fact that the team had a top 20 defense (either allowed in points or yards) was only twice.

Carr had three seasons with 4,000 yards and 10 or less interceptions and took third place in the MVP vote in 2016.

But he took care of the organization and served after the team's dismissal of many coaches and general managers of the team as well as the outdoor area, including Henry Ruggs' participation in a fatal car accident in November 2021, after releasing many coaches and general managers.

“My experience with him was excellent,” said Chicago Bear's defensive coordinator Dennis Allen, who trained Carr on Saturday with the Raiders and Saints. “I mean what kind of person. … I love Derek Carr. I didn't speak to him. I just saw that before we went on the practice area today. He did a lot of good things and he was always someone who was pleasant to be in the building.”

– Vic Tafur, 49ers Beat Writer and Kevin Fishbain, Bear Beat Writer

An immediate end in Las Vegas

Carr's time with the Raiders ended without further ado. With two games in the 2022 season and the team removed the playoff dispute, the former coach Josh McDaniels set. Although the decision was understandable from a financial point of view, it was a shocking step because the quartersback contract had an injury guarantee.

McDaniels and former general manager Dave Ziegler had expanded Carr at the beginning of the year after acting for one of his best friends in the recipient Davante Adams. While the duo produced lightning, the crime no longer remained its high expectations. McDaniels and Ziegler essentially placed the main burden of guilt on Carr's shoulders. In response to this, Carr stayed away from the Raiders to end the season and was later released after the team had failed to act. Since his last game came onto the street as a Raider, he never got a real farewell to the fan base.

Carr was a polarizing figure in Raider Nation. He became the leading passer of the franchise company, but could not win a single playoff game. As he remembers, it depends on who you ask, but his career objectively remains a success story as a former election in the second round. – Taskan Reed, Raiders Beat Writer

Saints Quarterback Room

New Orleans selected Louisville QB Tyler Shough with the number 40 in the NFL design of the last month, and Shough joins a quarterback room that only contains Jake Haener and Spencer Rattler, who went 0: 7 in their starts for New Orleans in 2024.

The 25 -year -old Shough was the third quarterback from the board in the design and is one year older than Rattler. He began his college career to support Justin Herbert in Oregon, and then switched to Texas Tech for two injury-lasting seasons before ending in Louisville, and led the cardinals to a 9: 4 record last year, his only full season as a starter.

Rattler, a selection in the fifth round in the draft of 2024, performed in seven games instead of the injured carrs in 2024 and threw 1,317 yards with four touchdowns and five interceptions for 1,317 yards.

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