5-time NFL Pro Bowler retires after 10 seasons

Published On: August 16, 2025

Five-time NFL After ten seasons, Pro Bowl guard Brandon Scherff announced his retirement from the NFL.

In an interview with his alma school, the University of Iowa athletics, Scherff, 33, said that he had resigned from the NFL earlier this summer.

I could never have imagined that, Scherff remarked. I would occasionally tell my wife that she has to pinch me because I’m playing a kid’s game, and it’s quite incredible that I can do it for a living. Now, it’s just fantastic to have children and be able to visit them after games. It is, in my opinion, a dream come true. And for that opportunity, I will always be thankful.

In the 2015 NFL Draft, Scherff, a standout player for the Hawkeyes in college, was selected fifth overall by the Washington Commanders. He spent his first seven seasons with Washington, where he was selected to five Pro Bowls and nominated to the 2020 All-Pro First Team.

In March 2022, Scherff agreed to a three-year, $49.5 million deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars following seven seasons in Washington. During his three seasons with Jacksonville, he started each of the Jaguars’ fifty-one games.

In 2014, Scherff earned the Outland Trophy, which is given to the college football offensive lineman every year, while he was an undergraduate at Iowa. In the same season, he was selected the Big Ten’s Offensive Lineman of the Year and a member of the First Team All-American.

“Oh, you know what you’re doing,” Scherff recalled, “every time you walked into a room at the (NFL Draft) combine and said, University of Iowa.”

“A player like Brandon Scherff is what teams are hoping to get when they draft an interior offensive lineman in the first round,” stated Scott Patsko, night sports manager for cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer. He made five Pro Bowls and started all of his NFL games. If you can look back on a career like Scherff’s, you know it was worth it, even though it’s rarely a pick that fans get very thrilled about at the time.