{"id":46356,"date":"2022-06-11T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/detroit-lions-dt-john-penisini-25-retires-after-two-nfl-seasons\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:15:45","slug":"detroit-lions-dt-john-penisini-25-retires-after-two-nfl-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/detroit-lions-dt-john-penisini-25-retires-after-two-nfl-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions DT John Penisini, 25, retires after two NFL seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-06-11T13:56:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">9:56 AM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Eric Woodyard<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>DETROIT, Mich.  &#8211; Lions defensive lineman John Penisini is retiring after two seasons in the NFL, announcing his decision of him in an Instagram post Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have made the decision to retire from football,&#8221; Penisini wrote.  &#8220;I&#8217;m definitely going to miss my teammates and the coaching staff but I&#8217;m glad I got to experience it. I&#8217;m happy and excited for whatever life has for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CeqFVLVuHrw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Penisini, 25, started in 12 of his 32 career games, registering 49 tackles, four tackles for loss, a sack and a fumble recovery.  Detroit selected him in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL draft out of Utah.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0609\/r1023137_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;For my family, friends, teammates, coaches and all the people who supported my dream along the way I appreciate and love you guys,&#8221; Penisini wrote.  &#8220;Go Lions #OnePride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9:56 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT, Mich. &#8211; Lions defensive lineman John Penisini is retiring after two seasons in the NFL, announcing his decision of him in an Instagram post Saturday morning. &#8220;I have made the decision to retire from football,&#8221; Penisini wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;m definitely going to miss my teammates and the coaching staff but &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/detroit-lions-dt-john-penisini-25-retires-after-two-nfl-seasons\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Detroit Lions DT John Penisini, 25, retires after two NFL seasons<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[2372,20363,146,307],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2020\/0506\/r695977_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}