PHILADELPHIA: This offseason, another Philadelphia Eagles legend is riding off into the sunset.

After 12 seasons in the NFL, defensive tackle Fletcher Cox announced his retirement on Sunday by sharing a message on social media.

In the statement, Cox added, “I gave everything I had to this team and to this city.” “I have no idea where my career will take me, but I do know that I will always be appreciative of my time spent in Philadelphia and working for the Eagles.” “Go, Birds!”

Cox, 33, is retiring after making six trips to the Pro Bowl and totaling 70 sacks in his playing career.

Cox, who entered the 2012 NFL Draft with the 12th overall pick, spent his whole playing career with the Eagles and was selected to the NFL’s 2010 All-Decade team group.

519 tackles, 173 quarterback hits, 16 forced fumbles, and 14 fumble recoveries—three of which resulted in touchdowns—are his career totals at the end of the game.

Cox was, of course, a part of the Eagles team that prevailed in Super Bowl LII.

Now that he has retired, the Eagles roster consists of just four players from that squad.

PHILADELPHIA: Everyone could see it. Actually, there wasn’t much to see at all.

Naturally, that would have been Fletcher Cox’s locker on January 17, two days following the Philadelphia Eagles’ season’s conclusion. Cox’s locker had been emptied of over twelve years’ worth of belongings.

It’s not always a good idea to take it too seriously, especially considering that Jason Kelce’s locker was still jam-packed with stuff and that of other players a few stalls further into the locker room. Brown cardboard boxes were packed full of stuff.

But there was a tell in this. Cox would not return.

He officially announced it on Sunday. After playing his whole NFL career with the Eagles, where he was selected with the 12th overall choice in the 2012 draft.

The Eagles lost center Kelce, one of their finest offensive players and leaders, and defensive lineman Cox, one of their top defensive players and leaders, in the space of a week.

In his last season as an Eagles scout, NFL head draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah wrote this on Cox: