{"id":969,"date":"2012-07-30T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:05:55","slug":"report-another-tragic-story-of-an-nfl-player-committing-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Report: Another Tragic Story of an NFL Player Committing Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Tampa Bay Times<\/a>, Tennessee Titans Wide Receiver, O.J. Murdock<\/a>, has died of an apparent suicide. Murdock was only twenty-five-years old.<\/p>\n

Murdock was found inside his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Murdock played one season in the NFL but spent the entirety of it on injured reserve, and he did not report for training camp this year due to “personal reasons.”<\/p>\n

This suicide comes on the heals of the NFL announcing its Health and Wellness program<\/a> aimed at safeguarding and protecting players who are suffering with mental-health problems. The League provides an NFL Life Line<\/a> which players and their families are encouraged to call if a person is suspected of having mental-health concerns.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obviously too early to speculate that head trauma was a contributing factor in Murdock\u2019s death. However, there is no question that Murdock — like any other high school, college or professional football player — experienced repeated sub-concussive hits throughout his playing career.<\/p>\n

Several former NFL players have committed suicide in the past eight years: Ray Easterling, Junior Seau, Dave Duerson, Michael Current, Shane Dronett, Terry Long and Andre Waters. Several other former players died in perplexing ways, but they were not ruled a suicide: John Grimsley, Curtis Whitley, Mike Webster, Tom McHale, and Justin Strzelczyk. At least nine of the twelve were diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Tennessee Titans Wide Receiver, O.J. Murdock, has died of an apparent suicide. Murdock was only twenty-five-years old. Murdock was found inside his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Murdock played one season in the NFL but spent the entirety of it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,61,62],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}