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“I definitely appreciate that,” Kneeland said at the time. “Great athlete. Great person. Micah said he wanted to sit down and dissect some Cam Jordan film with me. We’re gonna get around to that. It’s a great feeling to have somebody like Micah speak so highly about me.”
This fall, Kneeland was in the midst of his second NFL season in Dallas, a career that so far had included flashes of promise and two significant injuries. On Monday night he scored his first career touchdown, falling on a blocked punt in the end zone against the Arizona Cardinals.
But Thursday brought the awful news that Kneeland was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 24. His family and teammates are mourning the person he was and would have been. This is a look back on the player he was, and what the Cowboys hoped he’d become.