Friday, March 29, 2024

Former NFL Receiver Terry Glenn Dies in Car Crash at 43

Terry Glenn
Terry Glenn

*Former NFL wide receiver Terry Glenn died Monday after a one-vehicle rollover traffic accident near Dallas that left his fiancée slightly injured, reports ESPN. He was 43.

Glenn, a former star at Ohio State who lived in the Dallas area, was behind the wheel going eastbound on Highway 114 when the vehicle left the road at 12:18 a.m., struck a concrete barrier and rolled, said police department spokeswoman Chelsey Jones. Glenn was ejected. Jones said his fiancée was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Glenn died shortly before 1 a.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office. Irving (Texas) police are investigating the cause of the wreck.

Glenn played parts of 12 seasons in the NFL — six with the New England Patriots, five with the Dallas Cowboys and one with the Green Bay Packers. He made the Pro Bowl in 1999 as a member of the Patriots and finished his career with 8,823 yards and 44 touchdowns.

Former NFL quarterback Drew Bledsoe, who was Glenn’s teammate with both the Patriots and Cowboys, said Glenn turned the corner as he got older.

“He was one of those guys that just grew up in the worst possible environment and he told me at one point he had a hard time trusting people because everybody he ever trusted either betrayed him or died and so he kept to himself,” Bledsoe told ESPN’s Todd Archer. “But as he got older, he really started to open up. When I was with him there at the end of our careers in Dallas, he really started to allow himself to trust people and started to turn a corner and become a happy person. Then with his retirement he was making a big impact on the world.

“The last time I talked to him he just sounded like he was genuinely happy and in such a good place and really finally totally overcoming those demons from the way he grew up. He was living a long and fulfilled life and that makes it just such a horrible tragedy seeing what he overcame and then for his life to end too soon.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement that Glenn “was a gentle and kind hearted young man.”

“We are all terribly saddened by this news of his passing. Too young and too soon. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his loved ones and all of the people who were touched by his life.”

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