Former Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles has retired from the NFL. He played for six years in the league from 2014 to 2019.
He signed a reserve/future contract with the Saints on January 12, 2022, before he announced his retirement on the podcast Pardon My Take on October 5, 2022.
The former American football quarterback Blake Bortles played in the National Football League for eight seasons, primarily with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
He was born on April 28, 1992, in Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States.
Bortles attended Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida, where he excelled in football and baseball for the Lions.
Bortles accepted the offer from the University of Central Florida, which was the first college to offer him a scholarship and was located near his home.
He was redshirted as a true freshman in 2010. As a redshirt freshman in 2011, he played in 10 games, completing 75 of 110 passes for 958 yards with six touchdowns and three interceptions.
On May 8, 2014, at the 2014 NFL Draft, Bortles was chosen in the first round with the third overall pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars. Bortles was the first of an eventual 14 quarterbacks to be drafted.
On May 1, 2017, the Jaguars picked up the fifth-year option on Bortles’s contract.
On September 24, 2020, Bortles was signed by the Denver Broncos after an injury to starter Drew Lock.
He signed a reserve/future contract with the Saints on January 12, 2022. On April 5, the Saints waived Bortles, who had asked to be released from his contract following the team’s decision to sign Andy Dalton.