Rams RT Rob Havenstein retires after an 11-year career from St. Louis to Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Right tackle Rob Havenstein is retiring after an 11-year career with the Los Angeles Rams.

The longest-tenured player on the Rams' roster announced his expected decision on social media Tuesday.

“11 years, 150+ starts, 4 time captain, 4 NFC West Championships, 2 NFC Championships and 1x Super Bowl Champion,” Havenstein wrote on social media. “What a ride it’s been! I can look back on my career and smile knowing I have given everything I had and more to the game I love. In saying that, I am officially retiring from the NFL.”

The 33-year-old Havenstein was a starter throughout his career with the Rams, who drafted him out of Wisconsin in 2015. He was the last remaining member of the current roster who made the move from St. Louis to Los Angeles and stayed with the franchise throughout its first decade back home.

Havenstein started 148 games and won a championship ring during his tenure on the Rams' line, and he repeatedly served as a team captain in recent years. He also started 13 playoff games, including two Super Bowls as a bookend to left tackle Andrew Whitworth.

Injuries limited Havenstein to 18 games over the past two seasons, and he hasn't played since last November. Warren McClendon replaced Havenstein in the starting lineup and played fairly well, but Havenstein returned to practice in the days before the NFC championship game last month in hopes of playing if the Rams made it to the Super Bowl.

Havenstein thanked his wife and three daughters in his retirement message.

“As this chapter ends, I couldn’t be more grateful, hopeful, and excited to see what comes next!” he wrote.

Long snapper Jake McQuaide is now the only former St. Louis Rams player still with the franchise, but he is a free agent. The 38-year-old McQuaide also made the move from St. Louis to Los Angeles, but he left the Rams in 2021 and didn't return until last November.

Tyler Higbee is now the Rams' longest-tenured player, although the veteran tight end is also a free agent. Los Angeles drafted him in 2016, three months after moving back to the West Coast.

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FILE - Los Angeles Rams' Rob Havenstein celebrates after the NFC Championship NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Jan. 30, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

FILE - Los Angeles Rams offensive tackle Rob Havenstein watches a replay during a NFL divisional playoff football game between the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jan. 23, 2022 in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Menendez, File)

FILE - Los Angeles Rams offensive tackle Rob Havenstein (79) waves towards the stands after an NFL football game against the Las Vegas Raiders, Oct. 20, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong, File)

An immigration court blocked the deportation of a Turkish Tufts University graduate student who was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, her attorneys said in court documents filed Monday.

Rümeysa Öztürk's attorneys said the immigration court found on Jan. 29 that the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t proved that Öztürk should be removed from the U.S.

The immigration court also terminated Öztürk’s removal proceedings, the attorneys said in a letter to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has been reviewing her case.

The department has the option to appeal the immigration court's decision, the notice from her attorneys said.

Öztürk is a PhD student studying children’s relationship to social media. She was arrested last March while walking down a street as the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy. She had co-authored an op-ed criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza.

Video showed masked agents handcuffing her and putting her into an unmarked vehicle.

A petition to release her was first filed in federal court in Boston and then moved to Burlington, Vermont. Öztürk has been out of a Louisiana immigrant detention center since May and back on the Tufts campus outside Boston.

A federal judge said Öztürk raised serious concerns about her First Amendment and due process rights, as well as her health. The federal government appealed her release to the 2nd Circuit.

Öztürk's attorneys told the 2nd Circuit that the government may try to detain their client again if it appeals the immigration court's decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that “Visas provided to foreign students to live, study, and work, in the United States are a privilege, not a right — no matter what this or any other activist judicial ruling says.” The agency didn't directly address its plans in Ozturk’s case.

Öztürk said it was heartening to know that some justice can prevail.

“Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system’s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. government,” she said in a statement released by her attorneys.

FILE - Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk reads from a prepared statement following a court hearing outside the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham, File)