Prayers are pouring in after two former NFL players were found dead before Super Bowl 60.
Super Bowl 60 is set for Sunday night. The New England Patriots will be taking on the Seattle Seahawks in the big game. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. E.T It should be a fun one on Sunday evening.
But heading into the big game, tragedy has struck two NFL families.
Two former NFL players have tragically been found dead prior to kickoff on Sunday evening. It's tragic news.
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Former Super Bowl champion Barry Wilburn, who won a title with the Washington Redskins, was killed in a house fire.
"Family and friends are mourning the loss of former NFL player and Super Bowl champion Barry Wilburn. Family confirms he was the victim of a house fire in Orange Mound early Friday morning," Action News 5 confirmed.
"The Memphis Fire Department responded to a reported residential structure fire on Douglass Avenue in Orange Mound at around 2am Friday morning. They found an unresponsive victim in the rear hallway. He was pronounced dead at the scene."
Elsewhere, former NFL player Kevin Johnson, 55, was found dead in a homeless encampment in California.
"Johnson, 55, was found Jan. 21 at a homeless encampment along a flood control channel in the Willowbrook area of South Los Angeles, suffering from what the sheriff's department described as "head trauma,'" NBC News confirmed.
"The department said Tuesday night that three other homeless people have been killed in the area along East 120th Street on the southwestern edge of the Willowbrook community, all at homeless encampments along the same channel."
Prayers are pouring in for their families
"So tragic," one fan wrote.
"Horrible news. Praying for their families today," one added.
"Awful news. Will be thinking of them both on Sunday," another fan added.
"Thinking of them today. What horrible tragedies," one shared.
Our thoughts are with the friends and family members of both former NFL players on Sunday morning.
May they rest in peace.