CHICAGO — Lance Briggs, a seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker who helped the Chicago Bears reach the Super Bowl, plans to retire.

Briggs said Wednesday during CSN Chicago’s telecast of the Cubs’ game against the Reds at Wrigley Field that he’s ready to call it a career.

He said he plans to submit his retirement papers soon, although he didn’t completely shut the door on playing again for the right offer.

“If somebody called me and they said, ‘Hey Lance, we’d like you to come play football,’ I’m gonna say ‘I’m happily gonna retire,’ ” Briggs said. “And if they said ‘Well, Lance, you know we’re gonna offer you this,’ I’m gonna say ‘Well, there’s a good chance you’re gonna have a new football player.'”

RAIDERS: The team signed free- agent linebacker Lorenzo Alexander, who is entering his ninth professional season. He has played for Washington and Arizona, and spent time on the practice squads for Carolina and Baltimore.

PANTHERS: Carolina signed backup quarterback Derek Anderson to a two-year contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2017 season, providing depth and experience behind Cam Newton.

BEARS-TEXANS: Chicago acquired tight end Khari Lee from Houston for a 2017 sixth-round draft pick.

GIANTS: New York re-signed place-kicker Chris Boswell.

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, 40, a former NFL running back serving a 31-year sentence for choking his girlfriend and later driving his car into three teens, was charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a central California prison.

WASHINGTON: Robert Griffin III made his first public comments since losing his job to Kirk Cousins, speaking at a team awards luncheon, but didn’t address Washington’s starting quarterback situation.