Ravens OLB Jaylon Ferguson passes away

[Mr. Scot]

No cause of death is yet known.

Only 26 years old...

[Jon Snow]

Such a tragedy for the family of this young man.

[davos]

Jeez this stuff is awful this year.

There are unusual amount of passings in pro sports for the active/recently active types. Haskins, Swanigan, Gladney, these CFBs, Marion Barber, Adrein Payne, I’m missing some but it seems like unusually high tick up this past year.

[MHS831]

Tragic. 

[LinvilleGorge]

[ForJimmy]

Damn that's horrible...

[Peppers90 NC]

Crazy and sad. Young athletes passing away from "natural causes"

[Sgt Schultz]

Wow.  My heart goes out to his family.  He was far too young for this.

[hepcat]

39 minutes ago, davos said:

Jeez this stuff is awful this year.

There are unusual amount of passings in pro sports for the active/recently active types. Haskins, Swanigan, Gladney, these CFBs, Marion Barber, Adrein Payne, I’m missing some but it seems like unusually high tick up this past year.

My heart goes out to these families dealing with the death of a young person. 

It's not just in football, there seems to be a lot of younger people dropping dead these days. I've known too many people who have died from drug overdoses or suicides in the last year. A prominent Austin musician unexpectedly died a couple months ago. No cause given, my guess is drug overdose. 

Fentanyl is a big cause. It's EVERYWHERE. 

[top dawg]

What in the world? 

[motocross_cat]

1 hour ago, hepcat said:

My heart goes out to these families dealing with the death of a young person. 

It's not just in football, there seems to be a lot of younger people dropping dead these days. I've known too many people who have died from drug overdoses or suicides in the last year. A prominent Austin musician unexpectedly died a couple months ago. No cause given, my guess is drug overdose. 

Fentanyl is a big cause. It's EVERYWHERE. 

Bingo on the fentanyl 

Rec drugs are not what they once were.  This stuff needs to be addressed seriously yesterday.  These politicians want to save the world, get this poo off the street.  Its killing people left and right.

[LinvilleGorge]

13 minutes ago, motocross_cat said:

Bingo on the fentanyl 

Rec drugs are not what they once were.  This stuff needs to be addressed seriously yesterday.  These politicians want to save the world, get this poo off the street.  Its killing people left and right.

It was kind of an afterthought when it was "just" hardcore heroin addicts impacted by this but fentanyl is showing up in everything now. If you're doing any sort of street drugs these days you're playing some real Russian roulette. That includes street purchased prescription pills. Pill presses are cheap. There's no guarantee that pill is what you think it is.

[KatsAzz]

So young. This was a heart breaking tragic loss.

[SizzleBuzz]

2 hours ago, hepcat said:

It's not just in football, there seems to be a lot of younger people dropping dead these days.

True dat...

...what's changed in the last couple of years?