Derek Carr announces his retirement due to shoulder injuries

In an abrupt turn of events, the New Orleans Saints will enter the NFL season 2025 with a new start quarters in the center.

According to sources near the NFL insiders, Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo, Saints Quarterback Derek Carr announced his resignation from NFL after an eleven-year career. The decision appeared for Carr and searched for a non-surgical solution for his guilty shoulder injury outside of the season.

The official website of New Orleans Saints gave further insights into the injury of Carr, which led to his later retirement.

“When he raised his preparation for the 2025 season at the end of March, Derek had pain in his right shoulder. It was his first time that he threw a football with a significant volume since he was injured on December 8, 2024, both of a brain shot and a violation of the left hand. Derk immediately contacted the medical team of the Saints.

Finally, medical scans objectively found that Derek suffered a Labralriss and also had significant degenerative changes in its rotator cuff.

Since that time, Derek, his representation, have worked together the Saints Medical team and external medical experts to determine the best way forward. The operation was an option that endangered the entire 2025 season, but there was no guarantee that Derek would return to the strength, function and performance of the game to which he was used to. “

“After thinking about prayer and in the discussion with Heather, I decided to withdraw from the National Football League,” said Carr in a team statement. “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, possession, team officials and in particular fans who have made this trip so special. The world means the world for us.”

The long-time Oakland/Las Vegas Raider ended his two-year Saints-At time with a record of over 0.500 in 27 games (14-13), 6023 Passing Yards, four per bowl nods, 40 touchdown hits, 13 interceptions, 0 division Titiles and 0 playoff appearances. During his career, Carr has accumulated more than 41,000 career passing -yards, 257 touchdown throwing, 112 career interceptions, a percentage of 65.1 career, four Pro -Bowls and 1 playoff image.

Carr's retirement from the NFL presents his latest contractual situation a certain nuance. According to Mike Triplett from NWORLANS.

However, the franchise will not owe him a salary of $ 30 million, which was previously a guaranteed injury. Therefore, Carr's two-year capacity brings $ 70 million to $ 13.207 million for 2025 and 35.67 million for 2026 after submitting the retirement after June 1 to $ 13.207 million.

State of the Quarterback area of ​​the saints

Spencer Rattler, Jake Haener and Tyler Shough are the remaining quarterback options of the team. Haener is the group's Elderstatesman as a professional in the third year, while Rattler and Shough are entering their second or first NFL season.

Shough seems to be the main candidate for week 1 because he is located the team's new team of coaches directly opposite the team of the team. He was considered a top quarterback prospect of head coach Kellen Moores in this year's NFL design and has a variety of NFL tools, even though he is a 25-year selection of the second round.

A quarterback competition from the training camp and the previous season seems to be inevitable, since Rattler, Haener and Shough were together with seven NFL starts. Rattler started six of them six seasons ago with mixed individual results, an injury -related line -up and zero winners in his name.

It would not be a bad idea if New Orleans also added an experienced option to the Signal Caller Room. It must probably take place outside of the season in a trade, since some of the ideal bridge options in the league are on current NFL roster.