INDIANAPOLIS — Nine-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time first-team All-Pro offensive tackle Jason Peters is retiring after 21 NFL seasons and transitioning into a front-office role with the Seattle Seahawks, general manager John Schneider said Tuesday.
Speaking at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, Schneider said Peters will serve as an assistant to Mo Kelly, the Seahawks vice president of player affairs. Peters, 43, spent the last two years in Seattle, appearing in eight games in 2023 and spending last season on the practice squad before landing on injured reserve in December.
Peters is best known for the 11 seasons he spent with the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he won a Super Bowl ring in the 2017 season.
His retirement ends a stellar career for a player who broke into the NFL in 2004 with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent out of Arkansas, where he began as a defensive lineman before switching to tight end.
The 6-foot-4, 300-plus-pound Peters began his career as a Bills tight end before converting to tackle the next offseason. He started 10 games at right tackle in 2005 and won the job the next year over former first-round pick Mike Williams. He took over at left tackle in 2007, when he earned his first of four second-team All-Pro selections.
A contract dispute eventually led the Bills to trade Peters to the Eagles in the spring of 2009. He spent 12 years in Philadelphia, including missing the entire 2012 season with a torn Achilles tendon.
Peters played the 2021 season for the Chicago Bears, making 15 starts at left tackle, and the next season for the Dallas Cowboys. Overall, Peters had 221 starts in 248 career games.
