Joey Bosa’s NFL career might be over.
The 30-year-old pass rusher remains unsigned after spending the 2025 season with the Buffalo Bills, and according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Bosa has likely played his last snap.
“Joey Bosa has made so much money in his career, that I think some people have wondered whether we will see him play in the NFL again,” Schefter said.
“It is more likely than not that Joey Bosa has played his last NFL down. Now, again, could a situation like the 49ers come along that entices him enough to come out and play again? Yeah, absolutely. We saw it happen last year with Philip Rivers. So, you never know when a player is fully done and when he’s not done. But the fact of the matter is, I think if the Niners wanted to pair those two together, it probably would have happened already.”
He added that if Bosa wanted to still play football, it “probably would have happened already.”
The idea of Bosa calling it a career isn’t too surprising. Earlier this spring, his brother Nick, when asked about playing together in San Francisco, said that Joey was working on his golf game, and he didn’t believe he was “thinking too much about football.”
Bosa signed with Buffalo on a one-year contract last season to play opposite of Gregory Rousseau. Bosa managed to stay healthy most of the season, playing in 15 of 17 regular-season games and recording five sacks and five forced fumbles. His play, however, was a tale of two seasons.
Over the first eight games, Bosa had four sacks. He had just one in the final 10 he played, including the playoffs.
Bosa hasn’t made anything official about his plans for 2026 and beyond, but the longer he goes without a contract, the more likely it seems that his time in the NFL is over.
