{"id":16470,"date":"2025-07-17T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16470\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:42:07","slug":"former-texans-eagles-lb-bryan-braman-dies-at-age-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16470\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Texans, Eagles LB Bryan Braman dies at age 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 17, 2025, 07:08 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>Former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"595690b3-2161-4913-a7a7-814af2fd2621\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-texans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> linebacker Bryan Braman died Thursday after seeking treatment this year for a rare, aggressive form of cancer, according to his agent. He was 38.<\/p>\n<p>Braman had undergone multiple surgeries during treatment in Seattle, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help him with expenses. Braman had been diagnosed with cancer in February.<\/p>\n<p>Agent Sean Stellato confirmed Braman&#8217;s death Thursday, noting that Braman had two daughters, ages 11 and 8.<\/p>\n<p>The GoFundMe for Braman raised more than $88,000, with former Texans star J.J. Watt giving $10,000 and other former teammates also contributing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rest in Peace brother,&#8221; Watt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JJWatt\/status\/1945820572564271292\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on social media<\/a>. &#8220;Gone far too soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rest in Peace brother.<\/p>\n<p>Gone far too soon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bJfEPMPCAc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bJfEPMPCAc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JJ Watt (@JJWatt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JJWatt\/status\/1945820572564271292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 17, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Braman played seven seasons in the NFL, from 2011 to 2017. He won a Super Bowl with the Eagles after joining the team for the playoffs, blocking a punt in the divisional round. The Super Bowl LII victory was Braman&#8217;s final NFL game.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 17, 2025, 07:08 AM ET Former Houston Texans and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Bryan Braman died Thursday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-16470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}