{"id":225939,"date":"2025-10-19T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:59:08","slug":"doug-martin-dies-at-36-nfl-world-mourns-former-buccaneers-rb-known-as-muscle-hamster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225939\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Martin dies at 36: NFL world mourns former Buccaneers RB known as &#8216;Muscle Hamster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> running back Doug Martin has died, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/10\/19\/doug-martin-dead\/?adid=social-tws\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TMZ<\/a>. He was 36.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about Martin&#8217;s death are available, according to the report, which only states that he &#8220;passed away recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martin was the No. 31 overall pick of the 2012 NFL Draft to the Buccaneers and spent six seasons in Tampa Bay. A two-time Pro-Bowler, Martin rushed for 1,454 yards in a stellar rookie season and enjoyed a career resurgence with 1,673 scrimmage yards and an All-Pro selection in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Martin last played in the NFL with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raiders<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin has died, according to TMZ. He was 36. No further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-225939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}