{"id":286842,"date":"2025-11-15T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:17:10","slug":"nfl-hall-of-famer-kenny-easley-dead-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286842\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Hall of Famer Kenny Easley Dead at 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          NFL Hall of Fame Safety<br \/>\n                          Kenny Easley Dead at 66<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published November 15, 2025 11:58 AM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kenny-easley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Easley<\/a> &#8212; a longtime safety with the Seattle Seahawks &#8212; has died, the team confirmed Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Kenny lived up to the values of his team through &#8220;his leadership, intensity, and fearlessness&#8221; in a post uploaded to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Seahawks\/status\/1989770188192112720?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>. The Seahawks expressed condolences to his wife and three children in the post. His cause of death is not yet public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20251115_aab32fc764e64705aeb15787c6b6c3a6\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d9e40d67-8d37-4792-829e-f2fc8b2a36a9\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aab32fc764e64705aeb15787c6b6c3a6_md.png\" alt=\"Kenny Easley sub getty swipe 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Easley was drafted by the Seahawks with the fourth overall pick in the 1981 NFL Draft after playing college ball at UCLA<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Over the next seven season, &#8220;The Enforcer&#8221; &#8212; as Kenny was called &#8212; terrorized opposing offenses &#8230; racking up 32 interceptions. His best year came in 1984 when he picked off opposing quarterbacks 10 times and won Defensive Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20251115_b0a9d1f59a9445c6b77787ee1566b5c5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d9e40d67-8d37-4792-829e-f2fc8b2a36a9\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b0a9d1f59a9445c6b77787ee1566b5c5_md.png\" alt=\"Kenny Easley sub getty swipe 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Easley was also elected to five Pro Bowls, named a three-time All-Pro, and played a major role in the 1987 NFL strike as a labor representative for Seattle &#8230; though his career ended in 1988 when he was diagnosed with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome &#8212; a severe kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks added him to their Ring of Honor in 2002 and he was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20251115_ed9632f0b9e54cc6bd41dbb5df9db527\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d9e40d67-8d37-4792-829e-f2fc8b2a36a9\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ed9632f0b9e54cc6bd41dbb5df9db527_md.png\" alt=\"Kenny Easley sub getty swipe 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Easley was 66.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Hall of Fame Safety Kenny Easley Dead at 66 Published November 15, 2025 11:58 AM PST Kenny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,44,593,85,635,26898],"class_list":["post-286842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286842","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=286842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}