Eagles three-time Pro Bowl G Brandon Brooks announces retirement

Brooks was selected by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft and spent the first four years of his career there. The 32-year-old signed a five-year, $40 million deal with Philadelphia in March 2016 and had his most dominant days in the City of Brotherly Love.

"The past six years I wouldn't trade for the world," Brooks said, per The Athletic. "It didn't end the I would have liked it, but to me, it's never about the ending. It's about the journey."

After playing 14 games during his first season with the Eagles in 2016, Brooks took the field as a starter in all 16 regular-season contests — plus the three postseason games — with the squad in 2017. Philadelphia won its first and only Super Bowl that year, and Brooks earned his first of three consecutive Pro Bowl honors.

From 2017 to 2019, Brooks played in 58 straight games (including five playoff contests), but he suffered a shoulder injury in the 2019 regular-season finale, causing him to miss the postseason. During the summer of 2020, the Milwaukee native tore his Achilles, which led to him missing the entire season.

He went down with a torn pectoral muscle in Week 2 of the 2021 season and remained on the injured reserve list for the rest of the campaign.