{"id":42621,"date":"2025-11-09T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/42621\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:14:13","slug":"nfl-requests-moment-of-silence-after-dallas-cowboys-player-marshawn-kneelands-death-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/42621\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL requests moment of silence after Dallas Cowboys player Marshawn Kneeland&#8217;s death by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has asked all clubs to hold a moment of silence before games this weekend following the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> defensive end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-cowboys-marshawn-kneeland-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marshawn Kneeland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to CBS News Texas, league spokesman Brian McCarthy said teams were also asked to read a message after the silence: &#8220;If you or someone you know is struggling or needs emotional support, please call or text 988. The Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24\/7 to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys player found dead in Plano\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kneeland sent a goodbye text message to a group of friends before his death by suicide overnight Wednesday, according to dispatch audio obtained by CBS News Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The audio is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/plano-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Plano Police Department&#8217;s dispatch<\/a>, which sends officers to calls and relays details to them.<\/p>\n<p>At around 11:40 p.m. on Wednesday, officers went to a Plano apartment associated with Kneeland after someone called to report a concerning text message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re getting a call from a friend of the resident, they just received a text from him, a group text, from him saying goodbye. They are concerned for his welfare,&#8221; the dispatcher said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers did not make contact with anyone in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Two visits to Kneeland&#8217;s apartment\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was the second time Plano officers stopped by the apartment on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>At 11 p.m., Plano police received a request from Frisco police to help find the driver of a vehicle that had crashed on the Dallas Parkway near Warren Parkway. The vehicle, tied to the same Plano apartment, was involved in a high-speed chase with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, but the driver was missing.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco police said Kneeland was the driver. After a search of the nearby area, officers found Kneeland dead at 1:31 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has asked all clubs to hold a moment of silence before games this weekend following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,430,27],"class_list":["post-42621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}