Former Texas star and NFL running back Cedric Benson passed away on Saturday, August 17th after being involved in a motorcycle crash in Austin, Texas.
He was 36.
Benson was on the motorcycle with a female, also in her 30s, who died at the scene as well.
Per KVUE, “Police said Benson and a woman were on a motorcycle heading down RM 2222 when a minivan pulled out on Mount Bonnell Road and hit them.”
Benson, a four-year starter with the Longhorns, rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his seasons in Austin and is the 10th-leading rusher in college football history (5,540 yards). He won the Doak Walker Award and earned All-American honors in 2004, finishing as the second-leading rusher in Texas history.
“We lost a great one way too soon. #RIP,” Mack Brown, Benson’s college coach, said in an Instagram comment.
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