Dak Prescott pays tribute to teammate Marshawn Kneeland on emotional day

Trigger warning: This communicative contains references to suicide. Three days ago, Dallas Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott’s teammate Marshawn Kneeland, the 24-year-old antiaircraft extremity scored his archetypal vocation touchdown of the 2025 season.

Now, the satellite is reeling from the devastating quality of Kneeland’s death, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot coiled aft a constabulary chase.

Frisco constabulary said they were called to find a conveyance that had evaded officers during a pursuit. They recovered the car crashed connected the southbound Dallas Parkway adjacent Warren Parkway. Officers said Kneeland had fled the scene. As constabulary were searching for him, they were informed that helium had “expressed suicidal ideations.”

At 1:31 AM, they recovered him “deceased with what appeared to beryllium a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” The Collin County Medical Examiner’s Office volition find the authoritative origin of death. Heartfelt tributes poured successful aft his tragic passing. Among them was the backmost who had mislaid his antiaircraft end. He spoke astir Kneeland with CBS Sports Texas astatine his alma mater, Haughton High School, during a peculiar tract dedication ceremony.

“It’s been a precise pugnacious day,” Dak Prescott said. “As you said, it started aboriginal this morning, uncovering retired the news—tragic loss. I hurt. Heavy, dense bosom today. I wounded for Marshawn.

I wounded for his family. I’m wounded for his girlfriend. I wounded for each azygous 1 of my teammates. This is simply a symptom that you don’t privation upon anybody. You privation nary of america had to spell done this. You privation Marshawn didn’t person to spell done what helium had went through.

And conscionable thankful for each infinitesimal we person successful this life. And don’t instrumentality it for granted, and hug and emotion those that you do. It’s good to consciousness nevertheless you’re feeling. And I’ll archer you, archetypal and foremost, I don’t ever person the answers and contiguous is not a time that I felt similar I had answers.”

Dak Prescott mislaid his older member Jace to termination and present his antiaircraft extremity Marshawn Kneeland to evident self-inflicted gunshot wound

“Triggering time for galore reasons,” Prescott said. “On apical of conscionable knowing that I had today, and hard to equilibrium my emotions contiguous and not person a time that I person words different than I emotion you for friends and families, and radical who whitethorn beryllium struggling.

Yeah, I emotion them. Obviously, we had a Zoom call, and a fewer radical who spoke did an astonishing job, but arsenic I said, it’s to archer that idiosyncratic however I consciousness astir them erstwhile I spot them. Tough moments for this team.

As I said, I consciousness wounded for everybody that’s progressive successful this and Marshawn’s household and loved ones.”

The Dallas Cowboys are connected their bye week now, and this tragic quality has shaken them, particularly the quarterback, who mislaid his member to suicide.

Jace Prescott died by termination successful April 2020 astatine 31 years old. In September 2020, the prima signal-caller spoke astir his older brother, Jace, to Pat Doney of NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Prescott appeared arsenic a impermanent connected “In Depth with Graham Bensinger.”“Honestly, a mates of days earlier my member passed, I started experiencing depression,” Prescott said. “I didn’t cognize what I was going through, to accidental the least, and hadn’t been sleeping good astatine all.

But for 1 night, I slumber the champion I’ve slept, missing ten-plus calls from (my brother) and giving my dada capable clip to travel successful my chamber and archer maine what had happened. So, I woke up aft the champion nighttime of slumber I’ve had successful 2020 from the worst news, immoderate of the worst quality I’ll ever get.

” He recalled receiving the quality from his father. “I mean, obviously, determination were tears and tears and tears,” helium told Besinger. “I sat determination and tried to process what had happened and wanted to inquire wherefore for truthful galore reasons...and

as overmuch arsenic you privation to inquire why, I cognize my brother, and helium had a batch of burdens connected him.”The burdens helium mentioned were linked to their mother’s colon crab treatment, with Jace arsenic her superior caregiver. They mislaid their mother, Peggy Prescott, successful November 2013. After his brother’s passing, Prescott and his different brother, Tad, promised to beryllium much unfastened with each other.More quality connected Dallas Cowboys:Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones shifted his stance from “I emotion you” to “Micah(Parsons) could bring a batch of resources successful a trade”Dak Prescott dedicates 44-22 triumph implicit Washington to his 2 walk catchers CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens“I spit a 1000 times”: Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott says it’s unfortunate Jalen Carter didn’t get a accidental successful the archetypal play