Running back Cedric Benson of the Chicago Bears passed away this past weekend in an Austin, Texas motorbike accident.
Benson’s age was thirty-six.
Austin police said Benson and a lady riding on the cruiser with him hit a minivan maneuvering out onto the street not long before 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
The woman also passed away on the spot.
Prior to joining the NFL, Benson was one of the most productive rushers in NCAA and College of Texas history.
Benson was a central member in the Longhorns’ resurgence under mentor Mack Brown, who said Sunday that Benson’s demise has left him misery stricken.
“He was essentially as great as you’ll at any point see as a football player and surprisingly extreme,” said Brown, who as of late gotten back to mentor North Carolina following a long run at Texas. ” Be that as it may, what I’ll recall most is what a unique, extraordinary individual he was. We generally delighted in conversing with him since he was a splendid and one of a kind person. There won’t ever be another like him, and he will be sincerely missed by so many. It’s simply awful, yet we feel exceptionally lucky to have had him in our lives.”
Benson was one of the top secondary school initiates out of the West Texas town of Midland. He ranks eighth on the Texas high school career rushing list, according to Texas Football magazine. He drove Midland Lee to three straight state titles, the main three in school history, from 1998-2000.
Benson played at Texas from 2001-2004 and his 5,540 yards positions second at the college and ninth in NCAA history. He scored 64 profession scores with the Longhorns and won the Doak Walker grant, given to the country’s top running back, in 2004.
He was the main player in school history to scramble for somewhere around 1,000 yards in four seasons and was accepted into the college’s respectable corridor in 2014.
Benson received the No. 4th overall by the Bears in 2005, he helped them reach the playoffs the following year.
The Bears ultimately delivered Benson in 2008 after he was captured two times in a five-week length for liquor related episodes.
Benson went to have his best a very long time with Cincinnati from 2008-11, taking over as the highlighted back in a group that made the end of the season games two times yet lost in the primary round each time.
“Cedric was a fine football player for us,” Bengals President Mike Brown said. ” He played a main job for a long time here, including several season finisher runs.”
Benson ran for a vocation high 1,251 yards while driving a season finisher push in 2009, the first of three straight 1,000-yard seasons. He additionally drove the Bengals to the end of the season games in 2011, when Andy Dalton and A.J. Green showed up as tenderfoots.
“He was like a flower once he accepted our system. He recently bloomed,” previous Bengals running backs mentor Jim Anderson said. ” He gave us a component we didn’t have. We had corresponding folks, yet Cedric gave us a missing component. He was a decent man. He was one of my folks and it harms. Life is excessively short.”
Benson played one season with Green Narrows, where he began the initial five games in 2012 preceding experiencing a season-finishing Lisfranc break in Indianapolis on Oct. 17. He scrambled for 248 yards and a score on 71 conveys, and got 14 passes for 97 yards in five games with the Packers before the foot injury.
Benson completed his NFL vocation with 6,017 yards and 46 scores.
“He was from Texas, and he showed his Texas durability in driving us to a division title in only his second season with us,” Bengals proprietor Mike Brown said. ” His three continuous 1,000-yard seasons showed the ability he had. His sudden and tragic passing deeply saddens our organization.”
Following his playing career, Benson established the NUFCED foundation in Austin to assist children and families in need. Among those efforts was assisting in the repair of the damage to the home of the first person killed in a string of bombings in Austin at the beginning of 2018
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