{"id":11488,"date":"2025-10-19T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11488\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:25:08","slug":"ex-nfl-star-doug-martin-dead-at-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11488\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL star Doug Martin dead at 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nfl\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> star running back Doug Martin has died, his family said on Sunday. He was 36.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Martin\u2019s family released a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gregauman\/status\/1980011309883113696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX Sports<\/a> confirming his death. TMZ Sports first reported that the ex-NFL player had passed away. His cause of death was not made known.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/doug-martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;It is with great sadness to inform you all that Doug Martin passed away Saturday morning. Cause of death is currently unconfirmed. Please respect our privacy at this time,&#8221; Martin\u2019s family said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa\/boise-state-broncos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Boise State<\/a> standout was the No. 31 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. The California native made an immediate impact when he stepped on the field for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He played in all 16 games in his rookie season, rushing for 1,454 yards and 11 touchdowns. He had a breakout game against the Oakland Raiders when he ran for 251 yards and four touchdowns. He earned a Pro Bowl nod that season.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Martin played most of his career with the Buccaneers. He was a two-time Pro Bowler and was a first-team All-Pro selection in 2015. In 2018, Martin played for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Raiders<\/a> and had 723 rushing yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He ran for 5,356 yards and 30 touchdowns in 84 career games.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/nfl\/buccaneers\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers star running back Doug Martin has died, his family said on Sunday. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8730,115,119,110,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-11488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}