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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 ...
Jimmy Boyd Wilkerson, Jr. (January 4, 1981 – December 13, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners. He was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL draft. [1]
John Golden Richards (December 31, 1950 – February 23, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears. He played college football for the BYU Cougars and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.
Thomas in 1972. Thomas was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round (23rd overall) of the 1970 NFL draft.As a rookie, even though he did not start until the fifth game of the season, he led the team in rushing, while finishing eighth in the newly merged 26-team league with 803 rushing yards (second in the National Football Conference behind NFL rushing champion Larry Brown of the ...
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 ...
Rich Caster, 75, American football player (New York Jets, Houston Oilers, Washington Redskins), complications from Parkinson's disease. [40] Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb, 83, Paraguayan football executive, president of Club Olimpia (1974–1990, 1995–2004). [41] Wilhelmenia Fernandez, 75, American soprano, cancer. [42]
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.
William Lewis Shaw (December 15, 1938 – October 4, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a guard for the Buffalo Bills in the American Football League (AFL). After playing college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets , he was selected by the Bills in the second round of the 1961 AFL draft .