Chiefs' Super Bowl champion retires after 9 NFL seasons
It was quite the journey.
Chiefs' Super Bowl champion retires after 9 NFL seasons originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Donovan Smith hangs up his cleats with two Super Bowl rings on his hand.
He won one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , then another with the Kansas City Chiefs . This weekend, he officially announced his retirement, although he hadn't played in NFL regular season action since 2023. “Dear Football,” Smith wrote in his announcement.
“When I first started out this journey in seventh grade, I didn’t know what the other side would hold... Football has made me feel and experience every emotion imaginable. Thank you to all that has helped me through the years along my football career.
It has allowed me to grow and experience life in ways I can’t put into words. ” MORE: Diego Pavia, Shedeur Sanders and an NFL QB problem that goes back to Tim Tebow Smith played his college football at Penn State before being a second-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2015. He played his first eight NFL seasons with the Bucs, starting all 124 games he appeared in.