{"id":11849,"date":"2025-10-20T05:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11849\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:49:22","slug":"doug-martin-former-tampa-bay-buccaneers-player-has-died-at-the-age-of-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11849\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Martin, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player, has died at the age of 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Doug Martin, a former All-Pro running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has died at the age of 36.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He played six seasons in Tampa Bay during which time he was twice named to the Pro Bowl and once received All-Pro honors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He finished his career in the 2018-2019 NFL season with the then Oakland Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Buccaneers released a statement saying \u201cHe was a fan favorite during his time in Tampa Bay and was honored as one of the top 50 Buccaneers of all time for his numerous achievements. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and everyone whom Doug touched throughout his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Details on his death have not yet been released and <a href=\"https:\/\/mysuncoast.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/mysuncoast.com\" target=\"_blank\">mysuncoast.com<\/a> will provide an update when new information is available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Doug Martin, a former All-Pro running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10944,8730,10852,57,119,135,1526,137,136],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-all-pro-running-back","tag-buccaneers","tag-doug-martin","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","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=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}