“I’ll get to the point right away,” Brady, who just finished his 23rd season, said in a short video posted to social media. “I’m retiring. For good,” she said.
The 45-year-old Brady leaves the league a winner of seven Super Bowls, as well as his name at the top of the list for nearly every major statistical approval category. Until last season he was the oldest active player in the NFL for the tournament, but he still played at an elite level until the very end.
Brady decides to retire after his third season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, reversing his decision and returning to play after announcing that he would retire last February 2022. This season was his worst as a professional: the team finished with a record of 8 -9.
Brady threw for 4,694 passing yards, third-most in the league, while completing 66.8% of his passes. The season occurred against the backdrop of a complex period in his personal life. Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, after more than 13 years, announced in October that they filed for divorce over irreconcilable differences involving the end of Brady’s sports career.