Detroit Lions great Frank Ragnow details his abrupt retirement, failed comeback attempt

Former Detroit Lions prima halfway Frank Ragnow had a chaotic 2025 NFL play contempt ne'er playing a snap.

Ragnow, 30, retired abruptly during the summer, announcing his status connected societal media. In November, helium tried to marque a instrumentality to the tract and motion with the Lions, lone to neglect his carnal due to the fact that of a Grade 3 hamstring strain.

The four-time Pro Bowler said helium ne'er intended to discontinue during the summertime past year.

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Frank Ragnow of the Detroit Lions looks connected from the sideline during the nationalist anthem earlier an NFL crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Dec. 30, 2023. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)

"To sprout it to you straight, I was trying to volition myself to play, and my assemblage was telling maine otherwise. And I was conscionable successful similar a paralysis if you will," Ragnow said, according to ESPN. "I did not program connected retiring successful the mediate of the summer, judge it oregon not. I was trying to get like, 'You tin bash it,' for the guys, the fans ... like, it's who you are.

"But it's conscionable similar I was uncomfortable, and it's 1 of those things wherever you person a mates kids, and I don't privation a sob story," Ragnow said. "I'm going to beryllium wholly good and everything, but it's 1 of those determination wherever like, 'is the foodstuff worthy the squeeze' thing, and to me, yet it came down to that decision, and obviously, I struggled with that determination too."

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Frank Ragnow of the Detroit Lions looks connected during an NFL shot crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif., connected Dec. 30, 2024. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Ragnow said helium continued to enactment successful shape, which is wherefore helium attempted to unretire successful November. He said helium knew his hamstring was sore but had nary thought however atrocious the wounded was.

"I got wounded a time oregon 2 earlier I got there, and it's unfortunate. I should've listened to my assemblage probably, but it is what it is," Ragnow said. "It's a learning experience, and astatine slightest I tin accidental I laid my caput connected the pillow astatine nighttime and said I tried. I tried for the team. I tried for the fans. And it conscionable wasn't meant to be."

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Detroit Lions halfway Frank Ragnow warms up earlier the crippled against the Buffalo Bills astatine Ford Field successful Detroit connected Dec. 15, 2024. (Junfu Han/USA TODAY NETWORK)

He spent his full seven-year vocation with the Lions aft being drafted by the squad successful the archetypal circular of the 2018 NFL Draft. Following the 2021 season, Lions wide manager Brad Holmes made Ragnow the league’s highest-paid halfway astatine the clip with a four-year, $54 cardinal contract. 

The halfway made the Pro Bowl successful consecutive seasons aft signing the contract, arsenic helium remained 1 of the champion centers successful the athletics contempt battling injuries passim his career. In his last season, Ragnow played done a partially torn pectoral musculus and inactive played successful 16 games.

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