We learned today of the death
of Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback Dwayne Haskins.
>> What do you think about Ohio State?
Young Haskins.
I'm gonna go to college here.
>> Quarterback standout at Ohio State, 24
years old, drafted by the Washington Commanders who
had found a new home in Pittsburgh with
the Steelers, died this morning in South Florida.
The Florida Highway patrol says the 24 year old was hit by a dump
truck while crossing this stretch of I-5
95 in Fort Lauderdale around seven this morning.
Officers saying it's not known why Haskins was walking on the highway.
Haskins had joined his teammates in South Florida to train today.
Head coach Mike Tomlin saying in a statement, I'm devastated.
Haskins quickly became a part of our Steelers
family and was one of our hardest workers.
Teammate T.J. watt tweeting, Haskins was always
making people smile, never taking life for granted.
>> Dwayne Haskins was 24 years old.
Early Saturday morning, we learned of this tragedy.
Unfortunately, one Hall of Famer went a different route.
>> Well, Dan, I hate anytime anybody is killed or anybody dies.
But he was the guy that was living to be dead, so to speak.
>> The voice you hear is Gil Brandt who served as
VP of player personnel for the cowboys from 1960 to 1989.
>> They told Don't under any circumstances, leave school early.
You just don't have the work habits.
You don't have this, you don't have that.
What do you do left school early?
I think anytime anybody dies, it's tragic, especially when you're 24 years old and you got to hold your whole life ahead of you.
But maybe if Just have stayed in school
year, he wouldn't do silly things.
I mean, when you jogging on the highway, on the road like that leaves you open.
Because I tell you so the guy has two drinks and he's just a little
bit to the right side of the road and it gets hit and killed.
It's easy to happen.
>> Then there was this tweet from Adam Schefter.
The ESPN media guy, deleted it, rewrote it, then posted another,
though, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson went one route with his account.
Many called it spot on ex cowboys receiver Dez Bryant went another
>> When we talking athletes there's always going to
be a serious matter with me because of that.
That I know that we go through.
That's Adam Schefter said?
That's Gil Brandt said?
That's why I don't love it.
That's why I chose the path that I chose.
Can I still play, right?
But I don't love it.
I hate how we mistreated.
I hate it and I hate that.
What I really hate the most is some of you athletes to see that.
>> Don't even speak up former Ohio state
quarterback Cardale Jones voiced his displeasure with Adam Schefter.
How about Dwayne Haskins son, husband, buckeye
brother, friend beloved teammate has passed away.
TF his career ups and downs have to do with him unfortunately losing his life.
STFU let his family and friends grieve instead of throwing shade.
Praying for the Haskins family truly, as Josina, Anderson
put it, rather simply, Dwayne Haskins family deserves an apology.
They don't need to hear about his professional struggles
on the same morning of his untimely death, exactly.
The fact is, Adam Schefter has continuously dropped the ball
on more than just guy signs here and gets traded.
Their Schefter has been accused on several occasions of allegedly doing
an agents work for them in generating buzz around their client.
Last year, during the Jon Gruden email leaks,
it was revealed that in 2011, he handed
a story over to then Washington Gm Bruce Allen, whom he referred to as Mr. editor.
So that the team executive could look it over before Schefter published.
In October Schefter suffered another journalistic setback that saw him make two
half assed apology attempts for his
indefensible reporting of the Dalvin cook lawsuit.
Schefter appeared to have carried water for a person about to
be publicly outed over D A charges and looked terrible for it.
Just weeks ago, Schefter once again stepped in
it when a grand jury declined to bring criminal
charges against Shawn Watson over various essay allegations and
he referred to it as the truth coming out.
Even though a grand jury doesn't decide
guilt or innocence, he later apologized for
the framing, saying that it was poorly
worded and meant to illustrate the defense's strategy.
In spite of all of this, Schefter remains valuable enough to
ESPN that they re-signed him to a lucrative extension last month.
Back to brandt cam Heyward tweeted at him, I do not know or will assume too, but
please don't speak on my friend, he will be missed and your words are disgraceful.
We're all hurting right now.
As yahoo wrote since leaving the cowboys.
Brandt has often worked as one of the media's most prominent draft analysts.
He joined NFL dot com and its launch in 1995 and still writes there now though he
may have already written his last word for the league's website after this interview.
After seeing the backlash which was plenty
Brent finally responded this morning while learning of
Dwayne Haskins is passing, I reacted carelessly
and insensitively on a radio interview Brandt tweeted.
I wanna apologize to Mr. Haskins family and anyone who heard my poor choice of
words, I truly apologize my heart goes out to his family at this difficult time.
Normally when an athlete dies young, there's a tendency to talk about how good
or impactful he or she was in his or her given sport wrote awful announcing.
If anything, people default to overrating the deceased athletic achievements.
It's not that different outside of sports when
a person goes, especially at such a young age.
The natural human tendency is to remember that person's
good qualities and ignore the human imperfections on occasion.
People were bad enough in life that their
flaws must be immediately mentioned upon their deaths.
But Haskins did not qualify.
Furthermore, we can't overlook the last thing that Brandt said.
We don't know why Haskins was on the freeway E
S P N initial reports cited Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson.
Lieutenant Indiana Miranda, saying that, but we also don't know if the
driver who hit him had been drinking that may end up being reported.
But none of the initial reports have indicated that alcohol was a
factor at all brant, including that is highly irresponsible at this point.