{"id":602586,"date":"2026-04-24T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:13:10","slug":"former-vikings-first-rounder-doug-martin-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602586\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Vikings first-rounder Doug Martin dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vikings defensive lineman Doug Martin, the ninth overall pick in the 1980 draft, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vikings.com\/news\/doug-martin-mourn-loss-defensive-end-1980-first-round-pick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has died<\/a>. He was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Martin spent 10 years with the Vikings. He appeared in 126 regular-season games, with 94 starts.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, which was shortened to nine games due to a strike, Martin led the league with 11.5 sacks. He had a career-high 13 sacks in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Martin had 61.5 sacks for his career, which puts him at fourth on the team\u2019s all-time sack list. He was on the last two Vikings teams that played outdoors, before the opening of the Metrodome in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>His older brother, George, played for the Giants from 1975 through 1988.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our condolences to Martin\u2019s family, friends, and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vikings defensive lineman Doug Martin, the ninth overall pick in the 1980 draft, has died. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-602586","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\/602586","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=602586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}