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For professional football players, the most common cause of death is vehicle crashes. For college players, the most common cause of death is in-game and practice injuries. Each player is listed with the team to which he was assigned at the time of his death, rather than the team with which he spent most of his career. Players who were free ...
In most cases, when a professional athlete announces retirement, he or she retires and then never returns to playing professional sports; however, in rare instances there are some athletes who came out of retirement. The following list shows such athletes in addition to any noteworthy achievements that they earned during their playing career ...
James Earl Johnson (March 31, 1938 – May 8, 2024) was an American professional football cornerback who played for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1961 to 1976. He was named to the first-team on the NFL 1970s All-Decade Team, and in 1994, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Russell's most recent charitable work before his death was Everyone's Playground, [19] a park for special needs children located in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. [14] In 1989, he was named Big Brothers and Sisters Man of the Year. [11] Russell wrote three books, A Steeler Odyssey (1998), An Odd Steelers Journey (2002), and Beyond the Goalpost ...
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
The FIFA Sudden Death Report (FIFA-SDR), was carried out by Saarland University and published in 2020. [7] The report recorded worldwide deaths attributed to sudden cardiac arrest or other unexplained sudden death while playing (or shortly after playing) football during the period from 2014 to 2018. There were 617 cases during the five-year period.
The surgery ended his 2017 season. [21] [22] Despite the injury, Shazier was named to his second Pro Bowl on December 19, 2017. [23] He was ranked 47th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018. [24] On February 28, 2018, Steelers GM Kevin Colbert announced that Shazier would not be able to play during the 2018 season. [25]
He unretired from professional football on April 28, 2023, with the intention of playing for the Albany Empire in the following month, however this never came to pass. [266] [267] He announced his second retirement via the CTESPN Network, a social media page he created days prior, on April 24, 2024, retiring as a Las Vegas Raider. [268] [269]