{"id":291309,"date":"2026-04-29T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291309\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:39:16","slug":"former-nfl-defensive-lineman-josh-mauro-dies-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291309\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL defensive lineman Josh Mauro dies at 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TEMPE, Ariz. &#8212; Former NFL defensive lineman <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/17017\/josh-mauro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Mauro<\/a>, who played eight seasons for three different teams, has died. He was 35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-cardinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a>, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> and Mauro&#8217;s family confirmed on social media that he died last week. A cause of death was not given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 6-foot-6 290-pounder played six seasons with the Cardinals and one each with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyg\/new-york-giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Giants<\/a> and then-Oakland Raiders. His most productive season came in 2016 with the Cardinals when he played in 15 games, starting 13, and finished with 32 tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mauro played in 80 total NFL games, starting 40, and had five career sacks. His final season was with the Cardinals in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Josh Mauro,&#8221; the Cardinals said in a statement. &#8220;Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and all who knew him. We extend our deepest condolences to everyone grieving this loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Mauro played in college at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. &#8212; Former NFL defensive lineman Josh Mauro, who played eight seasons for three different teams, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[124268,6439,750,112,114,113,124267,6424,6450,752],"class_list":["post-291309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-124268","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-espn","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-josh-mauro","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291309","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=291309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}