Jason Peters didn’t head into the 2024 offseason planning to play football again, but he also hadn’t made the decision to retire. And by the time the regular season began without any teams reaching out to sign him, the 42-year-old tackle figured his playing days might be behind him.

But then the Seahawks called, giving Peters a chance to come back to where he spent his 20^th NFL season, and for a man who has spent the last two decades in the NFL, the decision was as simple as, “I get the call, I got to go ball.”

“I wasn’t really chasing it,” Peters said. “When you get the call—and through God anything’s possible so I can still do it—so when I got the call, I know these guys pretty well and it’s a young good team, so I was like, ‘I get the call, I got to go ball.’ So I’m not going to say this is the last rodeo, but I’m right there at the end.”

Whether or not this ends up being the last rodeo for Peters, a nine-time Pro-Bowl selection who came into the league as an undrafted free agent in 2004, he is back in Seattle in large part because of the experience he had here last year. Peters signed with the Seahawks early in the 2023 season after the Seahawks starting tackles were injured in Week 1, and after working his way back into shape on the practice squad, he ended up appearing in eight games, starting two.

Peters cited “the culture,” when asked about the decision to return to the Seahawks, adding, “I’ve been watching them the last couple of weeks, and they’ve been playing hard and battling. They’ve just been playing Seattle ball, and I still see that here.