The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said Johnson was pronounced dead Wednesday morning after being found unconscious. His death was ruled a homicide and is being investigated. Johnson was 55.<\/p>\n
A fourth-round draft pick by New England<\/a> in 1993, Johnson spent time with the Patriots, Minnesota Vikings<\/a> and Oakland Raiders<\/a> before landing with the Eagles. He had 43 tackles and seven sacks and returned a fumble for a touchdown in two years with Philadelphia. He played 15 games for the Raiders in 1997.<\/p>\n Johnson later played in the Arena Football League for Orlando and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles native played collegiately at Texas Southern.<\/p>\n Investigators believe Johnson had been living at the encampment at the time of his death. Friends said Johnson had health issues later in life that contributed to his situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 23, 2026, 09:52 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Kevin Johnson died from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-425338","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\/425338","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=425338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kevin Johnson played in 38 career games over three seasons with the Eagles and Raiders.\u00a0Otto Greule Jr.\/Allsport<\/p>\n