{"id":239718,"date":"2026-03-27T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:16:34","slug":"former-oakland-raiders-all-pro-center-barret-robbins-dies-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239718\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Oakland Raiders All-Pro center Barret Robbins dies at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former All-Pro center Barret Robbins, largely known for leaving the Oakland Raiders&#8217; team hotel on the eve of their most recent Super Bowl appearance in 2003, died at 52, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Raiders\/status\/2037575082672034146?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the team confirmed Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-teammate Tim Brown, a Hall of Fame wide receiver, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/81TimBrown\/status\/2037382276330168784?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced Robbins&#8217; death on social media<\/a> Thursday night. Brown said Marissa Robbins told him her husband died in his sleep overnight.<\/p>\n<p>No cause of death was provided by the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thoughts and condolences of the entire Raider Nation are with Barret&#8217;s family and friends during this difficult time,&#8221; the team said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/barret-robbins-raiders-1006126090.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"barret-robbins-raiders-1006126090.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Oakland Raiders&#8217; Barret Robbins one the bench against the Kansas City Chiefs, Monday, October 20, 2003, at the Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>                Digital First Media Group\/Bay Area News via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Robbins, a second-round pick out of TCU in the 1995 NFL draft, played all nine seasons for the Raiders. He was a first-team All-Pro selection in 2002, his second to last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please pray for (t)heir girls, his family and tons of teammates who will be affected by this!&#8221; Brown wrote. &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that his life was never the same after he was not allowed to play in the Super Bowl! Rest Peacefully BR, you deserve it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robbins reportedly didn&#8217;t take his medication for depression shortly before the Raiders were to face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl in San Diego. He was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly crossed the Mexican border to Tijuana before returning to the team hotel. Coach Bill Callahan suspended Robbins for the game, which the Raiders lost 48-21.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sad to hear of the passing of my center and former teammate Barret Robbins,&#8221; former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon posted on social media. &#8220;RIP my brother!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All-Pro center Barret Robbins, largely known for leaving the Oakland Raiders&#8217; team hotel on the eve of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[949,6424,9522,143,145,144,127],"class_list":["post-239718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-football","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-national-football-league","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}