Legendary Patriots center David Andrews is being released after a decade in New England, according to multiple reports.
The 32-year-old, who helped the team win two Super Bowls over the course of his 10-year stint, is currently rehabilitating from shoulder surgery which limited him to just four games last season.
If he now chooses to hang up his cleats, it is believed Andrews will be honored with a retirement ceremony by New England to honor his widespread contributions to the franchise.
Andrews made 136 appearances over the course of his decade with the Patriots and was selected as the center on their 2010s All-Decade team.
The ex-Georgia star initially went undrafted in 2015, before New England signed him as a free agent in May of that year.
Two years later he helped the team pull off the largest comeback in Super Bowl history to topple the Atlanta Falcons, before making it back to football’s showpiece event in each of the next two seasons.
Legendary Patriots center David Andrews is being released after a decade with the team
The 32-year-old helped the team win two Super Bowls over the course of his 10-year stint
The first ended in defeat against the Philadelphia Eagles, before they edged a low-scoring 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams the following year.
Andrews was the Patriots’ joint-longest tenured player with long snapper Joe Cardona and had one year to run on his contract, which would have earned him a base salary of $4million.
New England only added the 2025 season to his deal last year, an extension which included $8m guaranteed.
At the end of the 2024 campaign, the veteran center sensed his time in New England was up while he recovered from season-ending surgery on his shoulder.
‘I did everything I could to try to play [in 2024] and it didn’t go well,’ Andrews said. ‘I had to make a tough decision, knowing the surgery might not go well, and it might lead to more problems. But thankfully that went well.
‘Look, I know this is a tough business; the organization might come to me and tell me it’s time to move on. I might get into OTAs or training camp and know I can’t do it.
‘If the organization decides to go in a different way, that’s their choice and I hope that’s not the case.
‘I want to play football. I’ve done this for a long time – 26 years – and I’d like to make it 27 and see where it goes from there. I’m going to try to do it.’
