Former Steelers Safety Announces Retirement
Former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Trenton Thompson officially announced his retirement on Friday.
The Steelers waived Thompson on June 29, and he remained unsigned throughout the 2024 regular season. He’s now looking to see what’s next in his life’s work.
“It’s always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. … RETIRED,” Thompson wrote in an Instagram post.
Thompson, 26, first joined the Steelers last August during training camp, and played well when called upon last season as the club went through an unprecedented stretch of injuries at the safety position.
Thompson played in six games for the Steelers in 2023 and started one. He recorded 22 tackles, three passes defended and one interception, before he also suffered an injury, a major neck ailment, causing him to miss the last three games of the regular season and the playoff game.
The recovery was lengthy, stretching into the offseason. Thompson told Steelers Now earlier this year that he chose not to have surgery on the injury.
“Yeah, I went non-surgical,” Thompson said. “Personally, I wasn’t feeling surgery. Doctors also said it didn’t look like I needed it. I also had conversations with Micah Hyde throughout the offseason, because he was the only person that I could talk to that related to the injury. And he recommended I don’t (get surgery) unless the pain is too severe.”
Thompson went undrafted in the 2022 NFL Draft but signed with the New York Giants as a priority free agent. After failing to make the Giants’ 53-man roster, Thompson was re-signed to the team’s practice squad for the 2022 NFL season.
Over his six seasons at San Diego State, Thompson appeared in 55 games and recorded 187 total tackles, 12 tackles for loss, one sack, three interceptions, 26 passes defended, and two forced fumbles.
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