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Daniel OyefusiJul 25, 2025, 09:44 AM ET
- Daniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN, helium covered the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald, arsenic good arsenic the Baltimore Ravens for The Baltimore Sun.
BEREA, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns starting linebacker Jordan Hicks is retiring aft 10 seasons successful the NFL, helium announced connected Instagram connected Friday morning.
Hicks, 33, missed the archetypal 2 days of grooming campy with what the squad called a idiosyncratic matter.
"Football has fixed maine much than I could person ever imagined," Hicks wrote successful his post. "Purpose, discipline, brotherhood, and a level to interaction others. But astir importantly it showed maine who I americium extracurricular the game.
"I permission this section with heavy gratitude for each lesson, challenge, and victory. I'm arrogant of what I accomplished connected the field, but adjacent much arrogant of the antheral I've go due to the fact that of it."
Hicks was expected to participate his 2nd play successful Cleveland arsenic a person successful the mediate of the defense, particularly fixed the nonaccomplishment of Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, who was placed connected the reserve/physically incapable to execute the database and volition miss the 2025 play due to the fact that of a cervix wounded helium suffered past October. Hicks' status leaves the Browns without their top-two wrong linebackers from the erstwhile season.
With Hicks' retirement, Devin Bush, Mohamoud Diabate and second-round prime Carson Schwesinger beryllium atop the linebacker extent chart. Cleveland this offseason besides signed seasoned linebacker Jerome Baker, who has started 90 games successful 7 seasons.
Hicks was a third-round prime of the Eagles successful the 2015 NFL draught and spent the archetypal 4 seasons of his vocation successful Philadelphia, winning a Super Bowl successful 2018. He past had stints with the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings, accumulating 5 consecutive 100-tackle seasons earlier helium signed with the Browns and reunited with antiaircraft coordinator Jim Schwartz, who was his DC successful Philadelphia.
In his 10-year career, Hicks recorded 952 tackles, 16.5 sacks and 13 interceptions successful 134 games played (131 starts).
