Former NFL linebacker Keith McCants was located dead on Thursday morning in Florida after police reacted to an employ St. Petersburg. The former first-round pick was 53 years of ages.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace that they’re examining the circumstances surrounding McCants’ fatality. According, authorities believe that McCants’ fatality was triggered by a medicine overdose.
“It appears it was a drug overdose, but we are awaiting verification from the clinical examiner’s workplace,” sheriff’s spokesperson Amanda Sinni claimed. “This is still an open examination.”
McCants struck tough times after his occupation and also was in 2012 concerning players that went broke after their having fun profession. Over the past decade, McCants talked honestly regarding his misuse of medications and also medicines.
“Prior to [my career was] over with I was eating over 183 pills a week, not understanding the results it carried my liver or my kidneys,” McCants. “Or, a lot more significantly, establishing a split character with fierce tendencies that my family members had to take care of.”
McCants went to college at Alabama where he had actually an embellished job that included being called an All-American in 1989. His career began in 1990 when the Buccaneers made him the fourth total choice in the draft.
With the high choice came high assumptions which McCants was never ever actually able to meet. After 3 years in Tampa florida Bay, the Buccaneers decided to release him. McCants would play 3 even more periods in the NFL with two various teams (Oilers as well as ). The link between those 2 areas is Friend Ryan. The previous NFL trainer was a protective coordinator for the Oilers in 1993 and also when he got hired as the Cardinals coach in 1994, he brought McCants with him to Arizona.
Throughout his occupation, McCants played in an overall of 88 with 39 starts. Throughout his time on the field, McCants racked up 13.5 sacks and also 192 career tackles. McCants likewise scored one profession touchdown, which can be found in 1995 for the Cardinals.