{"id":18413,"date":"2025-07-18T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18413\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:50:09","slug":"a-super-bowl-champ-is-dead-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18413\/","title":{"rendered":"A Super Bowl Champ Is Dead at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        A former NFL linebacker with a Super Bowl ring has died at age 38 after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer only months ago, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/17\/sport\/bryan-braman-death-texans-eagles-nfl-spt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>. Bryan Braman played seven seasons in the NFL, including with the Philadelphia Eagles when they won the championship in 2017, per <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/super-bowl-champion-bryan-braman-dies-rare-form-cancer-at-38-11774126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. He also played with the Houston Texans. Braman was diagnosed in February with an unspecified cancer, but one described as rare and aggressive by his agent.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        &#8220;Rest in Peace brother,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JJWatt\/status\/1945820572564271292\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> former teammate JJ Watt. &#8220;Gone far too soon.&#8221; Watt was among those contributing to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/donate-to-bryan-bramans-healing-journey?attribution_id=sl:c4f14402-700b-4364-b4eb-510d24e86e36&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1751598556&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp13_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> page for Braman. The native of Spokane, Washington, was homeless for parts of his high school years, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/sports\/2025\/07\/17\/ex-texans-lb-bryan-braman-dies-from-rare-cancer-his-heart-was-as-big-as-his-body-he-was-special\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click2Houston<\/a>, but went on to play for West Texas A&amp;M University before entering the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2011.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        &#8220;You look at his journey and beating the odds to make it to the NFL after going undrafted,&#8221; said agent Sean Stellato. &#8220;Not only making it, but producing and becoming a world champion, he had a real hard journey. &#8230; He was a staple for what football and underdogs are about.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A former NFL linebacker with a Super Bowl ring has died at age 38 after being diagnosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4058,349,13441,1239,99],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl","tag-obituary","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","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=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}