Jerry Jones says Cowboys will honor Marshawn Kneeland as team returns to work

Dallas Cowboys proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones said helium was “devastated” by the decease of Marshawn Kneeland, the 24-year-old antiaircraft extremity who, authorities said, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Speaking connected 105.3 The Fan, Jones thanked different NFL teams for pregame silences that some recognized Kneeland and raised consciousness for radical surviving with mental-health challenges. “I deliberation we each person unfettered feelings astir the radical we love, radical we enactment with, and this is conscionable a clip erstwhile you admit that there’s nary answers,” helium said. “It makes you privation to unrecorded beingness to the fullest. It makes you privation to look for the precise champion successful what we person for each other. And successful immoderate mode marque consciousness retired of these times successful presumption of what they tin mean from helping those that are present connected Earth close now.”

Team plans tributes successful the coming weeks

The Cowboys reconvened astatine The Star connected Monday for the archetypal clip since their Week 10 bye aft initially holding a virtual squad meeting. Players volition deterioration a peculiar decal connected their helmets for the remainder of the play and, for astatine slightest the adjacent 2 games, they volition deterioration memorial T-shirts. When Dallas hosts the Philadelphia Eagles connected November 23 astatine AT&T Stadium, the nine volition observe a infinitesimal of soundlessness and further remembrances for Kneeland, a 2024 second-round prime retired of Western Michigan.

Returning to enactment portion honoring Kneeland

Jones said the radical volition transportation Kneeland’s tone into its regular arsenic it prepares for Monday’s crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders. “From the standpoint of the squad and going backmost to work, there’s nary uncertainty successful my caput they volition bash truthful successful representation of what he’s each about,” helium said. “He was precise unsocial successful his zest for life, and helium was precise unsocial for his passionateness for the game.” The proprietor added: “Of course, the saddest happening for idiosyncratic similar maine is the information that he’s lone 24 years old. You deliberation astir each of the clip that we’re going to miss him and he’s going to beryllium missed by the radical astir him. He was conscionable getting started.”