1. Tyler Jordan Sash was an American football safety for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the New York Giants of the National Football League.
11 Facts About Tyler Sash
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Tyler Sash was selected by the Giants in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft.
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Tyler Sash had 13 career interceptions for the Hawkeyes, which was five shy of the school record for career interceptions, originally set by Nile Kinnick from 1937 to 1939.
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Tyler Sash holds the Iowa record for career interception return yards with 392, a mark which ranks fifth in Big Ten history.
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Tyler Sash was named to the 2010 preseason Bronko Nagurski watch list, awarded annually by the Football Writers Association of America to the nation's best defensive player.
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On January 13,2011, Tyler Sash decided to forgo his senior season to make himself eligible for the 2011 NFL draft.
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Tyler Sash was selected in the sixth round by the New York Giants and was a member of the Super Bowl XLVI championship squad.
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Tyler Sash said in a statement that he took the drug legally and "under a doctor's care for an anxiety condition" to help him with public speaking.
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On September 8,2015, Tyler Sash was found dead in his Oskaloosa, Iowa, home around 8 am local time.
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On January 26,2016, five months after his death, Tyler Sash's family released the results of testing performed on his brain, confirming that he was suffering from stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by head injuries, at the time of his death.
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Tyler Sash is one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with this disease, which is caused by repeated hits to the head.