Throwback Thursday: All-Retirement Team

The recent retirements of Kevin Williams, Eugene Monroe, Phil Loadholt, and Greg Jennings added to the already impressive football talent that's left the NFL this offseason. So much talent that ESPN Staff Writer Jeremy Fowler was able to put together a star-studded football team. Here's his 2016 All-Retirement Team.

Quarterback 

Peyton Manning

Running back

Marshawn Lynch

Receivers 

Calvin Johnson

Greg Jennings

Slot receiver

Percy Harvin

Tight end

Heath Miller

Offensive linemen

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Logan Mankins

Manny Ramirez

Phil Loadholt

Eugene Monroe

Defensive linemen

Jared Allen

B.J. Raji

Darnell Dockett

Justin Tuck

Linebackers

Jon Beason

Jerod Mayo

A.J. Tarpley

Cornerbacks

Charles Tillman

Rashean Mathis

Safeties

Charles Woodson

Husain Abdullah

Those 22 players have nearly 70 Pro Bowls.

Defensive tackle Kevin Williams signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Minnesota Vikings yesterday so that he could retire with the team. He replaces B.J. Raji on this team and any 2016 All-Retirement Team. Williams was an outstanding player for the Vikings from 2003-13. 6 Pro Bowls. 5x First-Team All-Pro. 2000s All-Decade Team. He was one of the most disruptive and dominant defensive linemen in the league and should be in the conversation for the Hall of Fame in five years. 

Speaking of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Class of 2021 might be filled with first-year eligible players. Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson, Calvin Johnson, Jared Allen, Marshawn Lynch, and Kevin Williams. Manning and Woodson are automatics. Johnson, Allen, and Williams were among the best at their positions for the majority of their careers. They could and at least Johnson probably should join Manning and Woodson. Lynch's best were years were of Hall of Fame caliber but he probably didn't have enough of them to make it in his first few years of eligibility. A Hall of Fame case could eventually be made for Heath Miller and Charles Tillman.

I can't remember a year in which so much football talent walked away from the game. Manning and Woodson are the headliners. They were Heisman finalists together and came into the league together, it's only fitting that they leave together and enter the Hall of Fame together. Johnson, Allen, Lynch, Williams, Miller, Tillman. Matthew Hasselbeck! The young players in the league have a very large void to fill.