Panthers veteran C Ryan Kalil tells Joe Person of the Charlotte Observer that 2018 will be his final season in the NFL.
“This is going to be the last one for me,” Kalil said Tuesday.
Kalil dealt with a serious neck injury last season that limited him to appearing in just six games, but he’s looking forward to finally having a full offseason to get in shape for what will be his final year in the NFL.
“The thing I’m excited about is to actually have an offseason to train because I haven’t had that. I didn’t get that last year and I think that’s part of what contributed to my injury this last season,” Kalil said. “I didn’t get to start training until right around training camp, like actually football training. I just felt way behind and I didn’t feel as physically ready for the season as I would have liked to have been.”
Kalil joins LB Thomas Davis as Panther players prepared to call it a career after next season.
Kalil, 32, is a former second-round pick of the Panthers back in 2007. He’s entering the final year of his three-year, $24.5 million contract that included $13 million guaranteed and stands to make a base salary of $4.5 million for the 2018 season.
In 2017, Kalil appeared in six games for the Panthers.
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