Four-time Pro Bowl quarterback Derek Carr serious about NFL return after retiring last year: report

Four-time Pro Bowl backmost Derek Carr is reportedly precise superior astir coming retired of status aft officially ending his NFL vocation past year.

Carr, 34, retired successful May 2025 aft 11 seasons, but precocious said connected his podcast that helium would instrumentality if helium were steadfast and had a accidental to triumph a Super Bowl. He besides said that helium had already turned down a mates of teams.

Teams with "winning aspirations person existent interest" successful Carr, according to NFL newsman Jordan Schultz.

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New Orleans Saints backmost Derek Carr (4) throws earlier a crippled against the Los Angeles Rams astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Dec. 1, 2024. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

The Saints signed Carr to a four-year, $150 cardinal declaration successful 2023 and inactive ain his rights, meaning that if helium were to return, a squad would person to get him from the Saints. The Saints, who drafted backmost Tyler Shough successful past year’s draft, would presumably beryllium consenting to facilitate a commercialized arsenic Shough impressed.

Even if Carr played past season, helium mightiness not person taken a drawback owed to aggregate enarthrosis injuries. In March 2025, portion Carr was preparing for the season, helium experienced symptom successful his close shoulder.

The Saints announced that aesculapian scans determined that Carr sustained a labral teardrop and had important degenerative changes to his rotator cuff. The team’s aesculapian unit and Carr considered country connected his shoulder, but determination was nary warrant that the backmost would person the aforesaid strength, function, and show that helium was utilized to.

New Orleans Saints backmost Derek Carr (4) looks to walk the shot during an NFL shot crippled against the New York Giants successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, connected Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)

David Carr, a erstwhile NFL backmost and Carr’s brother, said helium knows the erstwhile Saints backmost is healthy.

In Derek Carr’s past season, helium played 10 games and completed 67.7% of his passes for 2,145 yards with 15 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. The Saints went 5-5 successful his starts.

Carr’s play was chopped abbreviated erstwhile helium sustained a concussion and a left-hand wounded connected the aforesaid play against the New York Giants.

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New Orleans Saints backmost Derek Carr (4) walks the tract earlier a crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Dec. 29, 2024. (Matthew Hinton-Imagn Images)

In 169 vocation regular play games, Carr had a grounds of 77-92, a 65.1% completion percentage, 41,245 yards with 257 touchdowns and 112 interceptions. He spent 9 seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders and 2 with the Saints.

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