Former Green Bay Packers kicker and Super Bowl champion Mason Crosby has retired from the NFL after 17 seasons, he announced Tuesday on his radio show, “The Mason Crosby Show.” Crosby, 40, retires as the Packers’ all-time leading scorer with 1,918 points, which also ranks 11th in NFL history. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)AP
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Former Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby, the franchise’s all-time leading scorer, has retired from the NFL after 17 seasons.
Crosby, 40, didn’t play in the NFL this past season. He last played one season for the New York Giants in 2023 after spending 16 seasons with the Packers.
The Super Bowl champ announced his retirement on his radio show, “The Mason Crosby Show,” on Tuesday.
“I’m just so, so thankful, so grateful for the opportunity to come to Green Bay in 2007, drafted in the sixth round out of the University of Colorado, to become a Packer and to be a part of this fraternity and legacy, the history of the Green Bay Packers,” Crosby said. “It’s about the fans. It’s about the people. It’s about my teammates. For me, I was always a ‘we’ guy. We’re doing this. We’re dominating and winning the NFC North nine times while I was a Green Bay Packer for 16 years, making the playoffs, winning the Super Bowl as a team. For me, everything I remember and everything I think about is about the team.”
Crosby ranks 11th in NFL history with 1,939 points scored. His 1,918 points scored with the Packers is nearly double second-ranked kicker Ryan Longwell (1,054 points) for the most in franchise history. Crosby helped the Packers win Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25, in February 2011.
Crosby made 81.3% (400-for-492) of his field goal attempts during his 17-year NFL career.
“My 17 seasons in the NFL surpassed all of my childhood hopes and dreams,” Crosby wrote in an Instagram post.
