{"id":724078,"date":"2026-04-13T03:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/724078\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:15:20","slug":"ufl-cornerback-from-jacksonville-killed-in-head-on-crash-near-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/724078\/","title":{"rendered":"UFL cornerback from Jacksonville killed in head-on crash near Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A cornerback in the United Football League from Jacksonville was killed after a head-on crash near Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">30-year-old Chris Payton-Jones died in a crash along State Road 24 late Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He grew up playing football in Jacksonville and had a stint in the NFL before joining the Saint Louis Battlehawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 21-year-old driver of the truck was slightly injured, but Payton-Jones was killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A cornerback in the United Football League from Jacksonville was killed after a head-on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":724079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,300127,4903,4446,3188,723,13102,7310,70309,142480,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-724078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-chris-payton-jones","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-gainesville","tag-jacksonville","tag-ufl","tag-united-football-league","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116395227595385857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724078","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=724078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}