Veteran WR Conley retires to attend film school

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- After reaching a decade's worthy of seasons successful the NFL, wide receiver Chris Conley is turning his absorption to a caller challenge.

Posting connected Instagram connected Saturday morning, Conley announced his status from shot aft playing 10 seasons divided among stops with the Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans and, astir recently, the San Francisco 49ers.

In the announcement, Conley said "when I was a kid I wrote down a acceptable of goals. On that database was 'Play 10 years successful the NFL.' Now that this extremity has been accomplished, it's clip to acceptable sights connected thing new."

Conley's 2nd enactment volition statesman by attending movie schoolhouse astatine his alma mater Georgia, his cause Jonathan Perzley told NFL Network connected Saturday.

Originally a third-round prime (No. 77 overall) of the Chiefs successful the 2015 NFL draft, Conley played successful 132 games with 65 starts successful his career. In that time, helium posted 226 catches for 2,998 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns portion besides carving retired a relation arsenic a peculiar teams contributor.

Conley's champion statistical play was successful 2019 with Jacksonville erstwhile helium finished with 47 catches for 775 yards and 5 touchdowns, each of which were vocation highs. Over the past 2 seasons successful San Francisco, Conley has chiefly served arsenic a backup to starters Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel and Jauan Jennings.

In his last play successful 2024, Conely had six catches for 76 yards and had a fumble betterment connected peculiar teams.

"The past 10 years person been a dream," Conley wrote connected Instagram. "Getting the accidental to play successful the league was an grant and whether it was catching touchdowns oregon blocking for them, I genuinely gave it my all."

Conley concluded his announcement by saying "See you successful the adjacent dream."