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Peyton Manning To Retire?

NFL News
February 27, 2016

7:50 pm: Pump the brakes. Manning hasn’t informed the Broncos of his decision, and the two sides will talk again this week, per Pro Football Talk (Twitter link).

7:26pm: Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning will announce his intention to retire by the end of this week, sources tell Woody Paige of The Denver Post. Whether Manning retires or elects to return for his age-40 season, the Broncos are operating as if he won’t be part of their plans going forward, according to Alex Marvez of FOX Sports. As Marvez writes, the Broncos are planning to use the $19MM of spending space they’ll have without Manning around next season as a way to pay some of their other players. Manning’s $21.5MM cap number and $19MM salary for 2016 will become fully guaranteed if he isn’t off the Broncos’ books by March 8, so the expectation all along has been that he’d either retire or get his release by then.

If Manning does indeed walk away, he’ll leave the NFL as a two-time Super Bowl champion, and the league’s all-time leader in total wins by a QB (200), passing yards (71,940) and passing touchdowns (539). The No. 1 overall pick of the 1998 draft also racked up 14 Pro Bowl bids and seven first-team All-Pro selections on the heels of a stellar career at the University of Tennessee.

The 2015-16 season campaign was the least productive of Manning’s career from a statistical standpoint, as he appeared in 10 regular-season games and compiled his second-lowest completion percentage (59.8%) and career worsts in touchdown passes (nine) and QB rating (67.9). Manning was out of action for the second half of November and all of December because of a foot injury, but he relieved a banged-up Brock Osweiler in Week 17 and never relinquished the starting job. Manning worked in a game manager role during the playoffs, when the Broncos’ defense dominated its way to wins over the Steelers, Patriots and Panthers en route to a Super Bowl.

 

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