{"id":6039,"date":"2025-07-18T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6039\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:19:14","slug":"super-bowl-winner-bryan-braman-dead-at-38-after-battling-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6039\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl winner Bryan Braman dead at 38 after battling cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Braman, a former NFL defensive end and member of the Super Bowl<\/a> LII-champion Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, has died at 38 after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His agent, Sean P. Stellato, confirmed his death Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Spokane, Washington native leaves behind two daughters.<\/p>\n

A journeyman edge rusher who attended three colleges before stints with the Houston Texas, Eagles, New Orleans<\/a> Saints and Eagles again, Braman primarily contributed on special teams and once blocked a punt in a divisional-round playoff game.<\/p>\n

The Eagles’ Super Bowl LII victory in February of 2018 was his final appearance in the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Diagnosed in February, Braman’s unspecified condition was later revealed in a GoFundMe drive aimed at covering his medical expenses<\/a>. His former Texans teammate, JJ Watt, personally donated $10,000<\/a>, while others such as Emmanuel Acho<\/a> spread the word on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bryan Braman, the former NFL linebacker and member of the Super Bowl LII-champion Philadelphia Eagles , has died from a rare form of cancer at 38<\/p>\n

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A GoFundMe has been set up to help raise money for Braman’s cancer treatment<\/p>\n

A June 20 update by organizer William Jones explained that ‘Bryan is home with his family after undergoing a Car-t cell reprogramming treatment program in Seattle.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initially the Car-t cell reprogramming appeared successful and his cells started ‘reproducing within his bone marrow,’ according to Jones. But while the mass began shrinking, the ‘cancer started fighting back,’ Jones explained.<\/p>\n

‘Bryan has not given up,’ Jones wrote. ‘He is looking into other trial treatment programs, and is determined to never give up.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The GoFundMe campaign raised nearly $90,000 for Braman.<\/p>\n

‘At Stellato Sports, Bryan Braman has always stood for strength, resilience and leadership,’ Stellato told KPRC 2 in Houston prior to his death. ‘He is a pillar and a staple of the underdog.’<\/p>\n

Although he went undrafted out of Idaho in 2011, Braman developed a bit of a cult following as a special teams contributor in Houston, blocking several punts, including one for a touchdown. He was named as a Pro Bowl alternate in 2012.<\/p>\n

Braman moved on to Philadelphia in 2014 and New Orleans in 2017, but suffered an injury and was placed on injured reserve before being released.<\/p>\n

That proved fortuitous for Braman, who signed with the Eagles in December before blocking a punt from the Atlanta Falcons’ Matt Bosher in a 15-10 divisional-round playoff win.<\/p>\n

Braman later recorded a single tackle in the Eagles’ 41-33 Super Bowl LII win over the New England Patriots in February of 2018.<\/p>\n

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Braman is pictured with his children after Super Bowl LII, which turned out to be his last game<\/p>\n

But his biggest contributions for the Eagles may have come in the locker room, according to former teammate Chris Long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘… we had a guy named Bryan Braman, special teams guy, looks like he’s in a biker gang, long hair,’ Long told the Ryen Russillo podcast in 2020<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Bryan Braman was an absolute psychopath and he was like our cameo speech guy. And sometimes he would just, real impromptu, start screaming and looking like a fucking hedgehog, knocking shit over in the locker room, eyes bulging out of his head.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘And, of course, he did look like a Sons of Anarchy dude so you were like, yeah, I’m listening. But Braman got going Super Bowl Sunday and I was like, “Yeah, you got it, bro.”<\/p>\n

Since then, Braman had a cameo role in a Jake Miller country music video and he’s made the occasional public appearance at celebrity flag football or basketball events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There has been an outpouring of grief on social media since news of Braman’s death was revealed. Eagles fans, in particular, have been offering their thoughts and prayers online.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Phenomenal human being and forever a champion,’ one such fan wrote. ‘Rest in peace, Bryan.’\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Braman, a former NFL defensive end and member of the Super Bowl LII-champion Philadelphia Eagles, has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97,59,3553,3554,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-dailymail","tag-gb","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}