Cowboys laud program to help deal with mental health issues - ESPN

FRISCO, Texas — With Friday marking one year since the tragic death of Marshawn Kneeland to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Dallas Cowboys players took time to remember their teammate and reflect on the team's effort to help deal with mental health issues.

The Huddle 94 program, named after Kneeland's jersey number, is designed to complement mental-health resources that the team has in place by having player-led roundtable discussions that are designed to add to the culture of the players' brotherhood, the connection of the players and have conversations about the challenges they face on and off the field.

«They've done a great job of putting something together and allowing us to create conversations and get together in smaller groups that talk about life and talking about things that are stressors to us that may have,» quarterback Dak Prescott said Thursday. «If it was something that we had, may have helped Marshawn. It may have been something that would've been a resource for him to prevent what inevitably happened.»

On Nov. 6, 2025, Kneeland was involved in a car chase with police and crashed, fleeing on foot. Police searched for him for nearly three hours and during the search they received information that he had expressed «suicidal ideations.» During their search, his girlfriend called law enforcement to say Kneeland was armed, had a history of mental illness and that he would «end it all,» according to various news reports, citing dispatch audio.

In what turned out to be his final game, Kneeland returned a block punt for a touchdown in a 27-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. The Cowboys were entering their bye week, but after learning of Kneeland's death, there was a team-wide Zoom call.

Prescott called it a «tough