{"id":229058,"date":"2026-04-12T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:54:10","slug":"ufl-cornerback-from-jacksonville-killed-in-head-on-crash-near-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229058\/","title":{"rendered":"UFL cornerback from Jacksonville killed in head-on crash near Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A cornerback in the United Football League from Jacksonville was killed after a head-on crash near Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">30-year-old Chris Payton-Jones died in a crash along State Road 24 late Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He grew up playing football in Jacksonville and had a stint in the NFL before joining the Saint Louis Battlehawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 21-year-old driver of the truck was slightly injured, but Payton-Jones was killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A cornerback in the United Football League from Jacksonville was killed after a head-on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[102921,1776,5507,2496,116,118,117,50491,50492],"class_list":{"0":"post-229058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-chris-payton-jones","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-gainesville","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-ufl","16":"tag-united-football-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229058","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=229058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}