Wide receiver Amari Cooper , a five-time Pro Bowl selection, has informed the Las Vegas Raiders that he intends to retire just days before the team opens the 2025 season at New England.

Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly said Cooper called coach Pete Carroll in the morning to say he was done playing.

"It's unfortunate because I think he's a heck of a football player," Kelly said. "... But he knows in his heart what he wants to do, so I wish him the best."

Cooper's decision comes after he signed a one-year deal with the organization on Aug. 26. Cooper, 31, said that returning to the Raiders -- who drafted him fourth overall in 2015, when they were based in Oakland -- was a "full-circle moment" and that he still had "some juice left."

General manager John Spytek said last week

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