Recent Super Bowl champion Shane Lemieux retires at just 28

Shane Lemieux, an NFL violative lineman who won a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks earlier this year, has announced that helium is retiring.

Lemieux, a fifth-round prime by the New York Giants successful the 2020 NFL Draft, shared the astonishing beingness update connected his LinkedIn leafage connected Tuesday. The 28-year-old pointed to the 5 surgeries he’s undergone during his playing vocation arsenic a driving unit that led him to his decision.

New York Giants defender Shane Lemieux (66) during the Blue-White Scrimmage astatine MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

"After graduating from the University of Oregon and being drafted by the New York Giants, I had dreams of a 10+ year, All-Pro career," Lemieux wrote. "I believed I could get there. But aft 5 surgeries and much clip successful the grooming country than connected the field, the crippled started to look antithetic to me. That is wherefore I americium deciding to measurement distant with the wellness that I have.

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"While I didn’t execute that goal, the lessons I learned done the injuries, the releases, and yet getting backmost connected the tract mean much to maine going guardant than immoderate accolade ever could have. And the relationships built on the mode person been the astir impactful of all."

New York Giants violative defender Shane Lemieux (66) looks connected successful enactment during a crippled betwixt the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants connected September 20, 2020 astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago, IL. (Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Lemieux spent his archetypal 4 seasons successful the NFL with the Giants and started 9 games during his rookie campaign.

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In 2021, Lemieux underwent season-ending country to repair his near knee’s patella tendon. The pursuing year, helium injured a toed during the preseason and was yet placed connected season-long injured reserve successful December. In 2023, Lemieux tore his biceps during an October signifier and managed to play conscionable 27 snaps during the season.

Shane Lemieux #66 of the New Orleans Saints looks connected from the sidelines against the San Francisco 49ers during the 2nd of of a preseason crippled astatine Levi's Stadium connected August 18, 2024 successful Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

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After a little stint with the New Orleans Saints successful 2024 and 2025, Lemieux inked a woody with Seattle successful September 2025 to articulation the Seahawks’ signifier squad. He did not diagnostic successful a crippled for the Seahawks a play ago.

What’s adjacent for Lemieux, who volition crook 29 successful May, is unclear, but the erstwhile first-team All-American signed disconnected connected his status announcement with a motivating message.

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"I americium thankful for the game. I’ve dedicated my beingness to football, and it has rewarded maine immensely," Lemieux wrote. "But I’ve ever seen myself arsenic much than a shot player, and I’m acceptable to amusement the satellite conscionable that."