Wide receiver Amari Cooper has informed the Las Vegas Raiders that intends to retire just days before the team will open the 2025 season at New England, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday.
His decision comes after he told reporters last week, "trust me, I still got some juice left." Cooper, 31, had signed with the Raiders late last month.
It ends what would have been a reunion with the franchise that drafted him with the fourth pick in 2015 when the team was based in Oakland.
It also will leave the Raiders with just four wide receivers on the 53-man roster: Jakobi Meyers, Tre Tucker, Dont'e Thornton and Jack Bech.