Former Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth clarifies remarks about calls to come out of retirement

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Andrew Whitworth capped off an incredible 16-year career in the NFL earlier this year with a Super Bowl victory and the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, but just months after retiring, the veteran tackle is apparently getting calls to reconsider. 

The former Los Angeles Ram said in an interview before the Houston Texans–San Francisco 49ers preseason game on Thursday night that his phone has been ringing since his former team lost to the Texans the previous week, 24-20. 

Andrew Whitworth of the Los Angeles Rams holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Feb. 13, 2022. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

"It has. I mean, obviously, there's been some things with the [Dallas] Cowboys and losing [tackle] Tyron Smith," he said. "It's just an awful deal. Such a great player, and a guy I've always just loved watching play.

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"It's been a busy day of answering calls. The problem is they're calling and texting the wrong person. They need to be texting and calling Melissa Whitworth and the kids, because they have final approval on whether I'm ever going to play football again."

Whitmore later clarified that it wasn’t the Cowboys that had been calling, but rather "friends and fans" after news of Smith’s injury.

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"I answered many messages yesterday from national and a few Dallas sports reporters and journalists," he said in a separate tweet. "The ‘people’ I mentioned last night.