Perhaps Mike Brown isn't so Semi-Retired?

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(05-06-2021, 03:34 PM)OSUfan Wrote: The average is 2.5 years if you take it as a whole. If you go to just offensive linemen the average is 3.5 years.

That 2.5 years is adding in all the UDFA guys and the like. That's hardly a legitimate number. Jake Dolegala was a UDFA who the Bengals signed in 2019, they released him after. The Patriots had him on their PS 1 year later. He never made it onto another active roster and is now a FA. His career is counted as 1 year, so he will obviously drag down the number. There are plenty of guys like him but I don't think he's really what people are thinking of when they are thinking of how long an NFL career is.

https://mgoblog.com/diaries/round-and-longevity-another-look-nfl-career-length

So long as you get your name called on draft day, you average about 5.2 years. That's probably the better number to go with as that is looking at the people the NFL considered as NFL level talent.