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The Detroit Lions discourtesy has taken different important blow.
Months aft losing violative coordinator Ben Johnson, Pro Bowl halfway Frank Ragnow announced his abrupt status connected Monday.
Ragnow, 29, played 7 seasons successful the NFL, each for the Lions.
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Detroit Lions halfway Frank Ragnow (77) prepares to drawback the shot during an NFC Divisional Playoff crippled betwixt the Detroit Lions and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful Detroit, Michigan USA, connected Sunday, January 21, 2024. (Amy Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Ragnow posted to societal media that helium has tried to person himself he’s feeling good capable to play, but helium said he's not.
"I person fixed this squad everything I person and I thought I had much to give, but the world is I simply don’t," Ragnow, who was drafted 20th by the Lions successful 2018, said successful an Instagram post. "I person to perceive to my assemblage and this has been 1 of the hardest decisions of my life."
"These past mates of months person been precise trying arsenic I've travel to the realization that my shot travel is ending and I'm officially retiring from the NFL," Ragnow continued. "The Lions enactment has been perfectly unthinkable passim this process and I can't stress this capable however grateful I americium for this squad and each the fans. It was an implicit grant going to conflict for you all."
Frank Ragnow #77 of the Detroit Lions looks connected from the sideline during the nationalist anthem anterior to an NFL shot crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium connected Dec. 30, 2023, successful Arlington, Texas. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)
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Ragnow battled done aggregate injuries passim his career. In 2021, pursuing a play successful which helium played with a fractured throat, wide manager Brad Holmes and Campbell made him the league's highest-paid halfway astatine the clip with a $54 million, four-year extension.
Ragnow earned second-team All-Pro honors successful 2020, 2023 and 2024. He was selected to his archetypal Pro Bowl successful 2020 nether then-coach Matt Patricia, and past made 3 consecutive from 2022-24.
Detroit Lions halfway Frank Ragnow (77) warms up earlier the crippled betwixt Detroit Lions and Buffalo Bills astatine Ford Field successful Detroit connected Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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With Ragnow, the Lions earned the NFC's No. 1 effect with their 15-2 record, but they mislaid successful the divisional circular to the Washington Commanders.
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