Two former NFL players have tragically been found dead before Super Bowl 60 on Sunday night.
The football world is getting ready for the final game of the season. The New England Patriots will be taking on the Seattle Seahawks in the big game on Sunday evening. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. E.T. It should be a fun one.
But while the NFL world is getting ready for the Super Bowl, the football world is also mourning the tragic loss of two former players. Two former NFL players were found dead in tragic circumstances.
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Two former NFL players - Super Bowl champion Barry Wilburn and former NFL player Kevin Johnson - have been found dead.
Wilburn, a Super Bowl champion with the Washington Redskins, was found dead 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."
Wilburn was 62 years old.
Meanwhile, Johnson, 55, was found dead in a homeless encampment. It's believed that his death could be linked to four other killings 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 reported.
"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."
Our thoughts are with the friends and family members of both former NFL players on Sunday morning.
May they rest in peace.