Former Bills WR Tavon Austin retires from NFL after 10 seasons

With training camp and the preseason underway to get the Buffalo Bills ready for the 2024 NFL season, plenty of events happen during this time of year for players and teams. Earlier this week, a player who sought to keep his career going by signing with Buffalo has now called it quits for good.

On Tuesday, wide receiver Tavon Austin announced via his Instagram of his retirement from the NFL after playing 10 seasons for five different teams, including five seasons for the Rams as the franchise relocated from St. Louis to Los Angeles. Austin came into the league with quite the draft pedigree as he was the eighth overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft after a storied career at West Virginia.

Austin made himself into a household name during his time in college as he was a threat catching the football, running the football, or as a return man in the special teams game. While Austin had a solid career in the NFL, he was unable to recreate the dominance that he showed at West Virginia and part of that could be pinned on the fact that he didn’t have a true position.

Ultimately, Austin finishes his career having amassed 3,600 yards from scrimmage along with 26 touchdowns through the air and on the ground. Austin signed with the Bills as a free-agent during the summer of 2022, but he released later that fall and did not play another down in the NFL after that moment.