{"id":71590,"date":"2026-04-13T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/former-nfl-cornerback-chris-payton-jones-dies-at-30-everyone-loved-him\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:04:36","slug":"former-nfl-cornerback-chris-payton-jones-dies-at-30-everyone-loved-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/former-nfl-cornerback-chris-payton-jones-dies-at-30-everyone-loved-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones dies at 30: \u2018Everyone loved him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Former Arizona Cardinal dies in head-on collision<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Payton-Jones had built career in content creation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones died in a car accident Saturday night in Florida. He was 30.<\/p>\n<p>Payton-Jones was driving a sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24 in Gainesville when his vehicle collided head-on with a pickup truck, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/sports\/2026\/04\/12\/one-of-my-all-time-favorites-friends-coaches-recall-impact-of-chris-payton-jones\/\">according to News 4 Jacksonville<\/a>. The three people in the truck sustained only minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/13\/former-nfl-cornerback-chris-payton-jones-dies-at-30-everyone-loved-him\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arizona Cardinal dies in head-on collision Payton-Jones had built career in content creation Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones died in a car accident Saturday night in Florida. He was 30. Payton-Jones was driving a sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24 in Gainesville when his vehicle collided head-on with a pickup &#8230; <a title=\"Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones dies at 30: \u2018Everyone loved him\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/former-nfl-cornerback-chris-payton-jones-dies-at-30-everyone-loved-him\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones dies at 30: \u2018Everyone loved him\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}