Early this afternoon, linebacker Logan Wilson took to Instagram to bid farewell to his temporary NFL profession. After only six years of play on the skilled level, the 29-year-old defender has announced his retirement.
Growing up in Wyoming, Wilson was an All-State athlete starting in his sophomore yr of highschool. By his junior and senior seasons, Wilson was earning All-State honors on offense (WR), defense (S), and special teams (P). Although he was an All-State athlete, the proven fact that that state was Wyoming limited the quantity of interest he received from colleges. He only received scholarship offers from Weber State and Wyoming and selected to remain in-state with the Cowboys. After redshirting his freshman season, Wilson was a full-time starter as a redshirt freshman and continued in that role for 3 years after that. His 421 total tackles are the fourth-most in class history.
The Bengals drafted the first-team All-Mountain West linebacker within the third round of the 2020 NFL draft. Though he only began two games as a rookie, he was always rotating in, and by the midpoint of the season, he was on the sphere for over half team’s defensive snaps. By the beginning of Yr 2, Wilson had replaced Josh Bynes as a starting linebacker, and he finished the season because the team’s leading tackler, a feat he would repeat in each of the subsequent two years, earning a four-year, $37.25MM extension. He likely would’ve achieved the feat for 4 straight years, but a season-ending knee surgery ended his 2024 campaign after just 11 games.
Injuries had needled Wilson over the course of his NFL profession, but that season-ending injury was the primary time he had missed greater than three weeks in a row. He only ever participated in every game of a season once, in 2023. That yr he recorded profession highs in total tackles (135), tackles for loss (5), passes defensed (9), and interceptions (4).
In 2025, Wilson began the season as a starter at inside linebacker, but because the team began limiting his time and giving more opportunities to Clemson fourth-round rookie Barrett Carter, Wilson requested a trade, and Cincinnati moved him to the Cowboys to honor that request, receiving only a seventh-round pick in the method. While he didn’t regain a starting role in Dallas, he was capable of retain a good rotation. Within the aftermath of the season, the Cowboys waived Wilson to unlock a substantial amount of cap space from the remaining years of his extension.
Over the course of his temporary profession, Wilson proved to be an efficient, versatile linebacker when healthy. He finishes his NFL profession with 565 total tackles, 11 interceptions, 26 passes defensed, seven forced fumbles, 5.5 sacks, 19 tackles for loss, and 18 quarterback hits. In his retirement post, Wilson expressed thanks for attending to live out his NFL dream as a child from Wyoming.