{"id":278235,"date":"2025-11-08T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:15:07","slug":"marshawn-kneeland-dallas-cowboys-quarterback-dak-prescott-says-players-hurting-following-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278235\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshawn Kneeland: Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott says players ‘hurting’ following death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: This story contains information some readers may find distressing<\/p>\n

Quarterback Dak Prescott says the Dallas Cowboys’ players are “hurting” following the death of team-mate Marshawn Kneeland.<\/p>\n

Defensive lineman Kneeland, drafted by the Cowboys in the second round in 2024, died aged 24 on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Frisco Police Department in Texas said Kneeland appeared to have taken his own life after a vehicle pursuit and multi-agency search on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Kneeland, in his second season with the Cowboys, scored his first NFL touchdown by recovering a blocked punt on Monday in a loss to Arizona.<\/p>\n

Prescott and his team-mates had a team video call in the wake of Kneeland’s death which the 32-year-old said had been “very tough” following a “tragic loss”.<\/p>\n

“I hurt for Marshawn, I hurt for his family, I hurt for his girlfriend, I hurt for every single one of my team-mates,” Prescott told CBS Texas.<\/p>\n

Prescott’s own brother Jace died by suicide, external<\/a> in 2020 and he has worked with mental health initiatives in the past few years.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged Kneeland’s death had been “triggering” and it was “hard to balance” his emotions.<\/p>\n

“This is a pain that you don’t wish upon anybody,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You wish none of us had to go through this. You wish Marshawn didn’t have to go through what he went through.<\/p>\n

“Tough moment for this team. I feel and hurt for everybody that’s involved in this and Marshawn’s family and loved ones.”<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have a bye this week on the NFL schedule before they return to competition on 17 November at Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story you can visit the BBC Action Line.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: This story contains information some readers may find distressing Quarterback Dak Prescott says the Dallas Cowboys’ players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-278235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278235","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=278235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}