Campbell’s 18th season will end with Sunday’s game against the Rams, but he doesn’t rule out a 19th year at this point. He said he wants to take some time after the season to decompress and that he doesn’t “know if I’m going to retire or not because I don’t know how my body is going to feel” after that process.
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“The last few years that I have gone through this process I have met pretty quickly “I wanted to play again,” Campbell said, via the team’s website. “It didn’t take me that long; within about a month, I knew I wanted to play football again.” We’ll see. I hope to find out quickly if I don’t want to play football again. The most important thing is that if I want to play football again, I give myself the opportunity to play football again. I always try to sign my work and play at the level they want me to return to. Even if I decide not to play again, I want to have the ability to say no, instead of being told, ‘See you later.'”
Campbell spent his first nine NFL seasons with the Cardinals and returned to the team on a one-year contract this year. He has started every game and recorded 41 tackles and 6.5 sacks in his second season in Arizona. That production should generate interest from the Cardinals and/or others and it doesn’t seem like it will be long before Campbell reveals whether he will return to the field in 2026.