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Approaching 39 years old, Calais Campbell would be 'very surprised' if 2025 wasn't his last season

Calais Campbell is closing his career circle by ending it where it began: Arizona.

The soon-to-be 39-year-old defensive lineman all but guaranteed 2025 will be his last season when speaking with reporters Thursday.

"I'd be very surprised if it wasn't," Campbell said, via team senior writer Darren Urban.

Campbell has lived many lives in his NFL career, spending his first nine seasons in the desert and emerging as an All-Pro before heading east to join the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2017, becoming an integral part of the short-lived "Sacksonville" defense. Well beyond his 30th birthday by 2020, Campbell found new opportunities in Baltimore (2020-2022) and Atlanta (2023) before making a South Florida homecoming with the Miami Dolphins last season.

The ageless wonder has remained consistently productive throughout his career, racking up 110.5 sacks and six Pro Bowls over 17 seasons and playing double-digit games in every campaign along a journey that earned him a place on the Pro Football Hall of Fame's All-Decade Team for the 2010s while earning the 2019 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. With Campbell acknowledging he's been operating in the twilight of his career for a few years, he decided a return to Arizona was only right, joining a revamped defense with the goal of sharing his surplus of wisdom with his (much) younger counterparts.

He'll aim to close out his remarkable career with one final season filled with success. Unless, of course, he decides to run it back again in 2026.

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