{"id":360175,"date":"2025-11-06T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:42:15","slug":"marshawn-kneeland-dallas-cowboys-player-dies-aged-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360175\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshawn Kneeland: Dallas Cowboys player dies aged 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Marshawn Kneeland has died aged 24.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kneeland was drafted by the Cowboys in the second round in 2024 and played 18 times for the team, including four starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored his first touchdown in Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c9q1p71jlrvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeat to the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> when he recovered a blocked punt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Marshawn was a beloved teammate and member of our organisation,&#8221; the Dallas Cowboys said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts and prayers regarding Marshawn are with his girlfriend Catalina and his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kneeland was selected by Dallas with the 56th overall pick of the 2024 draft after playing college football for Western Michigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His agent, Jonathan Perzley, said his &#8220;heart aches&#8221; for the passing of a player who &#8220;poured his heart&#8221; into every moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I watched him fight his way from a hopeful kid at Western Michigan with a dream to being a respected professional for the Dallas Cowboys,&#8221; Perzley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NFL said it is &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Marshawn Kneeland has died aged 24. Kneeland was drafted by the Cowboys in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-360175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115503755721153267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}