{"id":867786,"date":"2026-08-22T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867786\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:32:14","slug":"bills-mourn-death-of-ed-olivers-two-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867786\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills mourn death of Ed Oliver’s two-year-old son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u00a0general manager Brandon Beane issued a statement on Saturday expressing his and the organization\u2019s condolences to defensive tackle Ed Oliver on the death of his two-year-old son.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an unthinkable tragedy for any parent. We will continue to support Ed and his family as we grieve this tragic loss,\u201d\u00a0Beane said\u00a0as the Bills prepared to play a preseason game in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Oliver has asked for privacy and prayers while still mourning his son, who was also named Ed. The toddler was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in a residential pool in Harris County, Texas, on June 28, a person briefed on what happened told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the team and player have not revealed that information.<\/p>\n

Without providing many details including names or ages, the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s department posted a\u00a0note on its Facebook account\u00a0that evening regarding the drowning of a toddler in a neighbourhood community north of Houston.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tragic incident and our thoughts are with the toddler\u2019s family during this incredibly difficult time. The investigation is ongoing,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n

A sheriff\u2019s official told The Associated Press on Saturday that a report was not immediately available.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Oliver is entering his eighth season in Buffalo, and was selected by the Bills in the first round of the 2019 draft out of Houston.<\/p>\n

Oliver reported for training camp on time last month and appeared with the starters in the Bills’ preseason-opening 29-14 win over Carolina last weekend. He has not practiced this week because of an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills\u00a0general manager Brandon Beane issued a statement on Saturday expressing his and the organization\u2019s condolences to defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-867786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}