Longtime Pats center Andrews to retire from NFL

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Longtime New England Patriots halfway David Andrews, who was released successful March, volition officially denote his status from the NFL connected Monday, the squad announced.

Andrews was an eight-time skipper and two-time Super Bowl champion aft initially joining the squad arsenic an undrafted escaped cause retired of the University of Georgia successful 2015.

He spent his full NFL vocation successful New England, playing successful 124 regular-season games (121 starts) and 12 playoff games (10 starts). The 32-year-old was selected arsenic the halfway connected the Patriots' 2010s All-Decade Team.

Andrews' status announcement is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine Gillette Stadium connected Monday astatine 3:30 p.m. ET.

Andrews has been rehabilitating from enarthrosis country that constricted him to 4 games past season. The Patriots' determination to merchandise him was akin to what happened with receiver Julian Edelman, who had a chronic genu wounded and was released arsenic a procedural determination earlier helium announced his status successful 2021.

Edelman aboriginal said it was important to him to play his full vocation with conscionable the Patriots, which appears to beryllium on the lines of Andrews' thinking.

When the Patriots released Andrews, proprietor Robert Kraft said his "career occurrence is simply a shining illustration of what each NFL imaginable should strive to execute ... David is simply a existent nonrecreational and his interaction connected this enactment volition beryllium felt for galore years to come."