Eagles’ Lane Johnson: ‘I’m definitely not retiring’ after Super Bowl LIX-ZoomTech News

Philadelphia Eagles proper deal with Lane Johnson shall be 35 at first of the 2025 NFL season. May Tremendous Bowl LIX (Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports activities app) be his ultimate sport?

No likelihood, in accordance with Johnson.

“I am positively not retiring after this sport, win or lose,” Johnson said Saturday. “I am positively enjoying subsequent 12 months. That is actually how you are taking it — I assume whenever you stand up in age — one 12 months at a time. However bodily, I really feel loads higher than I’ve prior to now most likely couple [of] years. I really feel actually good. For being this late within the 12 months, it is often not like that. I am grateful. We have got a very good group right here to assist us with all that.”

Johnson, a two-time All-Professional and six-time Professional Bowler, has been Philadelphia’s major proper deal with since his 2013 rookie season. Tremendous Bowl LIX will mark the third Tremendous Bowl he has began for the Eagles, with Tremendous Bowl LII and Tremendous Bowl LVII being the opposite two.

Johnson is sixth amongst offensive tackles this season in move blocking grade (88.1), seventh in general grade (85.4) and twelfth in run blocking grade (80.0), in accordance with Professional Soccer Focus.

Two years in the past, Johnson and the Eagles misplaced a heartbreaker to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in Tremendous Bowl LVII, blowing a 24-14 halftime lead and shedding 38-35. They’re out for vengeance subsequent week.

“We did not end what we began a pair [of] years in the past,” Johnson mentioned. “We’ve an enormous likelihood to go play properly and do one thing particular. That is on our thoughts, however actually, for me, I do not attempt to get caught up within the feelings of it. I simply see it as one thing in the way in which, and we have got to discover a technique to get it out of our manner.”

As for the battle on Johnson’s facet of the ball, Philadelphia’s offense averaged 187.9 passing yards (twenty ninth within the NFL), 179.3 dashing yards (second), 367.2 whole yards (eighth) and 27.2 factors (seventh) per sport within the common season. The Eagles will face a Chiefs protection that surrendered 218.8 passing yards (18th), 101.8 dashing yards (eighth), 320.6 whole yards (ninth) and 19.2 factors (fourth) per sport within the common season.

Ought to the Eagles prevail, they’d finish the Chiefs’ bid to change into the primary group to three-peat within the Tremendous Bowl period.

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