Super Bowl week brought predicable talk about the possibility of this being that Patriots stars Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski play in. Brady is up there in age at 41, but he’s not the only one playing in this game who could be close to retirement due to age.
Andrew Whitworth is not spring chicken at age 37, but we’ve heard nothing about his permanent exit from the playing field. However, former Bengals offensive line coach Paul Alexander said something interesting on his podcast, that seemed to imply that Whitworth could retire following the Super Bowl.