{"id":882455,"date":"2026-09-04T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882455\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:30:09","slug":"former-nfl-player-alphonso-smith-dead-at-40-ctv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882455\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL player Alphonso Smith dead at 40 &#8211; CTV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxOODVOQzVkT091cFdoV3YwWU1ka2JkQjUxVkt5UFhRdFJ1Y1czb0w3TFFJeDRLd2FZeS1EMkF3V2t3YXVlOEFZdnZnVDk4b0I1WEJDRVpwWDNCUVl0ZHQ5a3ZCYzV4Rkt1OUMzRlhORjIxNFBsRl9fNzUzZ1RiQXRxRTJtWFl5VlVUU1FUblE4U2JFckRLRlZrV3VKbGQtQUpoVHAtU3otQThVeTVXQlFWenVDLU5sR3JHcGlQdU5UZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former NFL player Alphonso Smith dead at 40<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CTV News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxOTUJ0SW9kNDE3UmlXSWxvWGZuWms5LTZGTFdMTF9YdTBZSHdVZV9DSW54MFRMQS0wU3ZfZTBMREUwRGpWbVgzNVJRNldsNWZhbzdQREJucGh5Z3lMSlpJblgtU2VtNXJOamNzc2h1dkp3bEplRDc1d3ltdDQtaUlLcExFem8xVTZYUFo1RlRraFpodmNtOHZJLTJIa3ZuQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Wake Forest, NFL DB Alphonso Smith dies at age 40<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ESPN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2AFBVV95cUxQUlliQW51eDF6RHNjdFBtMWdiMW4tNzBaR3lVZnluc1RJNE0tem1reEJBaEJ2LXlDT1VSWlhKNTROLUpSVnBrOFRWSTRYdm1GdXVlTmtTWlVzZm9SaWVwWU9mQm1DZklhOEp1eG92clNTVHJ2VHFRZTF3U2dZX2daTmRXRlo5T3FlQllxelZvVTFYVThpUFJYZVRVczZzczJnbEJjZ0VVazBZcHEyUV9heGNTb0Y2TWpaV3A3N0lwTXNlSDFDZGd2UHpaamUwUWhQZHcxWnVSazQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former NFL player and college football star dead after final social media post claiming demonic possession<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fox News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPaDdIYjJXeVZLS0Q4WTZCbUk5emZXMnVjVGdtNUZvY1JnZ2VJeEVqVlFvREdjOVRCeTUza3Y2c0lUSDhRSnpjc2hROXJ1cDZKSk51V1UzMEJnN2hibHZqd1h5VXRLOHZGXzJCV3RsNGo0cnQ1SXhNZnhzaGt1YnNnQzNHZ1g?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former NFL Player Alphonso Smith Jr. Dies at 40 After Troubling Social Media Post<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;People.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxNNzlDRnZyQWtHN3BCaFJOZkJLY0VKeUxLWmYwSnZDYW5UU3RPMG9OeUdIQjd0YWdrT1pqdlJENWVYZUJGNUowTEpzTUZMWHluR1F6RzE1VG83NS00Y19rVjh1LVBxR18yTEhMWHZNVWI4dlBfd1JQRGNHQ21yeFpPWUE4OHAtU0VaNnNVZTJsTEpMZkVIZXFROTE4cDNSNElsQ3BmUXhmZ2UxLWtQQ1JtblNmTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alphonso Smith tried to buy a family breakfast days before disturbing death<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;nypost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL player Alphonso Smith dead at 40&nbsp;&nbsp;CTV NewsFormer Wake Forest, NFL DB Alphonso Smith dies at age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-882455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882455","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=882455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}