{"id":61923,"date":"2025-11-23T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61923\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:40:18","slug":"eagles-player-to-wear-cleats-honoring-late-marshawn-kneeland-vs-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61923\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles player to wear cleats honoring late Marshawn Kneeland vs. Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it\u2019s bigger than football.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a day before heated rivals the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles square off for the second time this season<\/a>, the Eagles\u2019 social media team put up a post that goes far beyond the pending matchup and the hunt for the playoffs.<\/p>\n

In the video post, Eagles linebacker Jalynx Hunt unveils a new pair of cleats featuring a smiling photo of himself and his late friend, Cowboys defensive lineman Marshawn Kneeland.<\/p>\n

Hunt said he plans to wear the cleats in Sunday\u2019s matchup to honor Kneeland, who died by suicide earlier this month<\/a>. It\u2019s part of the NFL\u2019s \u201cMy Cause, My Cleats\u201d initiative to showcase causes that are important to its players.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMarshawn and I started this journey together, seems like I\u2019ve known him all my life, but I met him beginning of 2024 for pre-draft work,\u201d Hunt explained in the video. \u201cThrough that process, it\u2019s really unique. I\u2019m with him every day. He\u2019s annoying me. I\u2019m annoying him. … Through that we got really close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt, like Kneeland, is in his second NFL season after being drafted by the Eagles in the third round in 2024. He\u2019s compiled 3.5 sacks in his first two seasons in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The cleats also feature a reference to the 988 suicide hotline.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to wear him on my cleats at the game, it really means a lot,\u201d Hunt explained. \u201cIf y\u2019all need to call anybody, man, 988 is the hotline. Please talk to them. Being strong does not mean you gotta be silent. Please talk to somebody so that we don\u2019t lose another great soul, a great person.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>Dallas Cowboys\u2019 Marshawn Kneeland was driving over 145 mph moments before crash, DPS says<\/a><\/p>\n

An empty holster was found in his Dodge Charger, according to an incident report from the Texas Department of Public Safety. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Cowboys\u2019 Marshawn Kneeland was subject of welfare checks at Western Michigan, per report<\/a><\/p>\n

A new report says two of Kneeland\u2019s college coaches were once concerned he was mentally fit to possess a gun. <\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes it\u2019s bigger than football. On Saturday, a day before heated rivals the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1044,102,113,104,103,23790],"class_list":["post-61923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-marshawn-kneeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61923","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=61923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}