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CB Logan Ryan thanks Patriots in retirement announcement

Former Patriots CB Logan Ryan is officially hanging up the cleats after 11 seasons

Former New England Patriots cornerback Logan Ryan announced his retirement on Tuesday. He made the announcement on X.

Ryan was drafted by the Patriots in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. He had a four-year career in New England, making 40 starts in 64 games. He recorded 243 combined tackles and 13 interceptions during his time with the Patriots.

New England was far from his only stop. He spent two years with the Tennessee Titans beginning in 2017 and then joined the New York Giants in 2020. He then spent one year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, before joining the San Francisco 49ers for the 2023 season.

All told, he tallied 755 combined tackles and 19 interceptions in an 11-year career.

“I am officially retiring from the NFL after 11 seasons. Man, what a great career. What a ride it was, beautiful journey of highs and lows like they always are,” said Ryan. “Shout out to my friends, my family, my teammates—all those that supported me, man. I tried to play the right way. I tried to play my hardest at all times. Shout out to the New England Patriots. Thank you for drafting me, believing in me, making me a two-time Super Bowl champion.”

Ryan was a dependable player in the New England secondary during his time with the organization. He was able to forge a career in a league that is both fast-moving and often times unforgiving.

There is certainly something to be said about that.

Former Rutgers football defensive back Logan Ryan retires from NFL

Logan Ryan, a former Rutgers defensive back, has retired from the NFL.

On Tuesday morning, former Scarlet Knight and two-time Super Bowl champion Logan Ryan announced that he was retiring from the NFL. During his 11-year career, Ryan played for the New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and San Francisco 49ers.

After a strong collegiate career with Rutgers, Ryan was drafted by the Patriots in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. He quickly became an essential piece of the New England secondary, recording five interceptions and 29 tackles in his rookie season. During his time as a Patriot, Ryan was part of two championship teams.

While Ryan was an effective player for the Patriots, his New England tenure came to an end after the 2016 season. He then spent three years with the Titans and picked off Tom Brady’s last pass as a Patriot. Over the last few years, the 33-year-old has been a veteran presence on playoff teams.

Logan Ryan was a 🐶

In 2019, Ryan ranked 1st among all cornerbacks with 113 tackles.

He also had 4.5 sacks, 4 interceptions and 4 forced fumbles.

Ryan was rewarded by his peers being ranked one of the top 100 players in the @NFL. pic.twitter.com/3QmwvB7Mk0

— Rutgers Football (@RFootball) April 9, 2024

As Ryan prepares for life after football, he leaves behind an impactful career. In 154 games, Ryan recorded 755 total tackles and 19 interceptions. He also had 13 career sacks.

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After Ryan broke the news on social media, tributes from teams he played for, such as the Patriots, poured in, showing how well he was regarded in the sport.

Former Bucs DB Logan Ryan announces retirement

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back Logan Ryan is retiring after 11 seasons in the NFL

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back Logan Ryan is hanging up his cleats.

Ryan officially announced his retirement from professional football Tuesday, posting a heartfelt video message on social media to deliver the news.

A two-time Super Bowl champion, Ryan spent 11 seasons in the NFL, including the 2022 campaign with Tampa Bay. He finishes his career with 755 total tackles, 98 pass breakups, 18 interceptions and 13 sacks over 154 regular-season games.

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Ex-Giants safety Logan Ryan announces retirement from football

Former New York Giants safety Logan Ryan has officially announced his retirement from football after 11 seasons.

Former New York Giants safety Logan Ryan officially announced his retirement from football on Tuesday, bringing an impressive 11-year career to an end.

In an emotional video shared on social media, Ryan thanked the New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers and, of course, the Giants.

“(Thank) the New York Giants for bringing me home, back to New Jersey, during the COVID years,” Ryan said. “Literally saved my wife’s life. Thank you so much to the training staff and the organization for saving my wife, Ashley.”

The 33-year-old Ryan was a third-round pick of the Patriots in 2013 after spending four seasons at Rutgers. With New England, Ryan picked up two Super Bowl rings and also went on to appear in Super Bowl LVIII as a member of the 49ers.

The Giants signed Ryan as a free agent in 2020, moving him from cornerback to safety. In 31 games (30 starts) with the team, he recorded 211 tackles (145 solo, three for a loss), three fumble recoveries, seven QB hits, 2.0 sacks, 17 passes defensed, and one interception.

During his time with the Giants, Ryan was also voted a team captain.

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Logan Ryan announces retirement from NFL, thanks Titans

Logan Ryan shouted out the Titans in his retirement announcement on Tuesday.

Former Tennessee Titans cornerback Logan Ryan has announced his retirement from the NFL, marking the end of an impressive 11-year career.

Ryan was signed by the Titans in 2017 and spent three seasons with the team. He was one the team leaders during his time in Nashville and was a class act through and through.

In his retirement announcement, Ryan shouted out the Titans and thanked them for not only signing him, but for supporting his animal rescue foundation, RARF (Ryan Animal Rescue Foundation).

“Thank you to the Tennessee Titans for bringing me down there,” Ryan said. “Becoming a franchise player and honestly supporting RARF, my animal foundation was birthed there and you guys took that in and we did so much on and off the field with playoff runs.”

Ryan’s most memorable moment in the two-tone blue was no doubt his pick-six off New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, which capped off the Titans’ stunning upset of the Pats in the 2019 playoffs and put an end to the Brady era in Foxborough.

On top of his three years with the Titans, Ryan spent four seasons with the Patriots, where he won two Super Bowls, two seasons with the New York Giants and one season apiece with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Francisco 49ers.

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Five former Buccaneers playing in Super Bowl LVIII

There are quite a few former Bucs playing in the big game on Sunday — with a large majority suiting up for Kansas City.

Very few players get the opportunity to play in the Super Bowl.

NFL greats like Tony Gonzalez and Barry Sanders never got to step foot in a championship game. Nevertheless, Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes has defied the odds and is days away from competing in his fourth Super Bowl in six seasons. Along with him are several former Bucs who will play with him — additionally, one member of the 49ers was also recently in Tampa Bay, so there’s plenty of former Bucs pedigree in the big game on Sunday.

Here’s a list of the former Buccaneers who will participate in the Super Bowl:

Super Bowl LVIII: List of former Titans on Chiefs and 49ers

The former Titans who will be vying for a Super Bowl ring on Sunday.

When the San Francisco 49ers meet the Kansas City Chiefs for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, Feb. 11, there will be multiple former Tennessee Titans players vying for a ring.

The most notable of the group is defensive back Logan Ryan, who spent three years with the Titans and played a key role in the team’s AFC Championship Game run in 2019.

“They had to come find me,” Ryan said of the 49ers, per Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. “I wasn’t trying out for teams. I wasn’t working out. I wasn’t taking a lot of teams’ calls. They said they wanted to bring me in as insurance. They are trying to win a Super Bowl, and they said, ‘We can bring in anybody: Practice squad guys, guys on waivers, but you are a guy we liked competing against.’ That meant a lot to me.”

If Ryan’s 49ers win on Sunday, it’ll be the third Super Bowl victory of his career.

Now, a look at the rest of the former Titans on the two Super Bowl teams.

Change in secondary could hinder 49ers’ Super Bowl chances

The #49ers made a change to their lineup in the divisional round. Now they need to change it back.

The 49ers made an interesting decision in their divisional playoff matchup against the Green Bay Packers, and moving forward with that decision could wind up costing them a Super Bowl.

Despite rookie safety Ji’Ayir Brown getting healthy enough to suit up for the postseason, it was veteran Logan Ryan lining up alongside Tashaun Gipson for San Francisco’s playoff opener.

Brown injured his knee in Week 16 against the Ravens and missed Weeks 17 and 18, but was back in practice to ramp up to the postseason. Still, he was one of two 49ers to not see the field against Green Bay in a game where a dynamic playmaker would have been helpful in the back end of the secondary.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan’s answer on why Ryan was in over Brown didn’t instill a ton of confidence that Brown would be an option for San Francisco in the postseason.

“We knew that we kind of decided that when Ji’Ayir had missed about four weeks,” Shanahan said in his postgame press conference. “I think it was two games, but he had been out four weeks. He’s been awesome in practice. I love Ji’Ayir. It has nothing to do with him. Just our experience of playoff games being around us. I think it’s a lot when you got a rookie who hasn’t played in a month, who is a very passionate, aggressive player. I just don’t want to put all that on him, to have him go out in the playoff game when he hasn’t been out there for four weeks. Especially when you have a veteran behind him who could just calm down a little bit. If things would’ve gone differently, we would’ve put Ji’Ayir in right away. But we don’t want to do that really to Ji’Ayir.”

Brown hadn’t played in four weeks. Now he hasn’t played in five, the 49ers are on a bigger stage, and Brown still doesn’t have postseason experience. It appears Ryan will be the team’s starting safety next to Gipson moving forward.

That could wind up hurting the 49ers.

Ryan, who will turn 33 next month, signed with San Francisco in early December after not being with a team at all in the 2023 season. Now he’s starting the biggest games of the year.

Against Green Bay he missed two tackles and allowed a touchdown on one of the two passes thrown his way. That TD came on a natural pick designed by Green Bay, but Ryan was a non-factor for the most part in a game where it might have been helpful to have Brown – an athletic, versatile safety with a penchant for being around the football and generating turnovers.

San Francisco liked Brown enough to trade up for him and make him the first safety off the bench when Talanoa Hufanga went down in Week 11 with a torn ACL. Now they need to trust him, because rolling with Ryan might wind up costing them the way it nearly cost them in their playoff opener.

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Ex-Titans DB Logan Ryan is back in the NFL

Former Titans DB Logan Ryan has signed a one-year deal with the 49ers.

After not playing a single snap so far this season, former Tennessee Titans defensive back Logan Ryan is back in the NFL with one of the league’s best teams.

The San Francisco 49ers announced on Tuesday that they have signed Ryan to a one-year deal. In order to make room on their active roster, San Fran waived running back Tyrion Davis-Price.

Ryan last played in the NFL in 2022 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he appeared in nine games (six starts). Before that, he spent two seasons with the New York Giants, where he played in 31 contests (30 starts).

A former third-round pick of the New England Patriots in 2013, Ryan came to Nashville as a free-agent signing in 2017 and spent three years with the team, making an impact both on and off the field.

Ryan’s most notable moment on the field came in the 2019 playoffs, when he picked off quarterback Tom Brady to seal an upset win over the Pats, which also put an end to the Brady era in New England.

The 32-year-old already has a pair of Super Bowl rings from his days with the Pats, and he’ll have a great chance for a third with the Niners, assuming he sticks with them the rest of the season.

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Former Bucs safety signs with 49ers

Safety Logan Ryan is the latest 2022 Bucs free agent to join a team far into the 2023 season.

One of Tampa Bay’s 2022 free agents has found a home late in the year.

The NFL’s Ian Rapoport reported on Tuesday that former Bucs safety Logan Ryan is signing with the San Francisco 49ers. The move comes with the 49ers searching for safety depth after injuries to their safety corps have began to pile up.

Ryan played for Tampa Bay in 2022. He had a limited impact during the season due to injuries, playing just nine games, where he netted 24 total tackles, one interception and one fumble recovery in Tampa Bay. Ryan is the latest among a number of Bucs free agents from 2022 that joined rosters later in the year — players like wideout Julio Jones, who joined the Eagles, and running back Leonard Fournette, who joined the Buffalo Bills.