Jaguars defensive tackle Corey Peters retires at age 34

Corey Peters (Jeffrey Beall, Wikimedia Commons)

According to ESPN on Thursday, defensive tackle Corey Peters of Louisville, Kentucky retired at the age of 34. He played 12 seasons in the National Football League from 2010 to 2022.

Peters was with the Atlanta Falcons from 2010 to 2014, the Arizona Cardinals from 2016 to 2021, and with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2022. During the 2022 NFL season, he had 20 combined tackles (11 solo tackles and nine assisted tackles), five tackles for a loss, and two quarterback hits.

In Peters’s career, he had 336 combined tackles (214 solo tackles and 122 assisted tackles), 55 tackles for a loss, 40 quarterback hits, one safety, one interception for one yard, 10 pass deflections, one forced fumble, three fumble recoveries for 17 yards and one touchdown, and 19 sacks.

Peters’s interception and fumble recovery for a touchdown both came while he was with the Falcons during the 2011 regular season. The one-yard interception came in a 31-17 Falcons win over the Carolina Panthers on October 16, 2011. The fumble recovery of 13 yards for a touchdown came in a 41-14 Falcons win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on December 15, 2011. The forced fumble came in a 31-18 Falcons win over the Detroit Lions on December 22, 2012.

In the NFL postseason, Peters played seven games. He had 16 combined tackles (11 solo tackles and five assisted tackles), four tackles for a loss, two quarterback hits, one pass deflection and one sack.

Peters was initially the Atlanta Falcons’s third round pick, 83rd overall, in the 2010 National Football League Draft. He played his college football in his home state of the University of Kentucky. Peters did not play the entire 2015 NFL season because of an Achilles’s injury. He is leaving a Jaguars team that is definitely on the rise after their amazing comeback win in the AFC Wildcard game last season.

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