Jessie Lemonier, a linebacker and also defensive end who played for the Detroit Lions and also Los Angeles Chargers, has passed away at age 25, the teams introduced Thursday.
The Lions said in a statement they were “shocked and saddened” to learn of his passing away. A cause of death is not yet openly known.
Detailed by the NFL at 6-foot-2 as well as 240 pounds, Lemonier went undrafted in 2020 out of Freedom before signing with the Chargers. He showed up in six games that year for Los Angeles, after that signed with Detroit in 2021 and also played in 7 games, with 2 beginnings. Lemonier was released by the Lions this previous May as well as landed with the Arizona Cardinals, who released him in training camp.
” Jessie was a model teammate as well as a fantastic boy who is gone much too soon,” the Lions stated. “Our ideas as well as prayers are with his friends and family throughout this hard time.”
gone too soon.
our hearts are with jessie’s family, friends and loved ones 💙 pic.twitter.com/v7Egt6p8va
— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) January 26, 2023
In November, Lemonier was drafted by the XFL’s Arlington Renegades but he selected rather to sign up with the USFL. That organization’s Houston Renegades traded him on New Year’s Eve to the Birmingham Stallions.
The USFL resembled the Lions in saying (by means of WBRC) it was “was stunned and saddened” by Lemonier’s fatality.
” He was a gifted football gamer and by all accounts a wonderful individual,” claimed the Birmingham-based organization. “Our ideas and prayers are with his family and friends throughout this tough time.”
Lemonier’s representative informed ESPN that the gamer and also his sweetheart were anticipating a child. He is likewise endured by an older bro, Corey Lemonier, that won a national championship with the 2010 Auburn Tigers before a four-year NFL occupation took him to the San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and New York Jets.
A local of Hialeah, Fla., Jessie Lemonier moved to Freedom after spending a period with Ventura (Calif.) College. Throughout his two seasons with the Flames, during which they finished a transition from the Football Champion Neighborhood to the Football Bowl Subdivision, Lemonier assisted the program reach its first bowl game. He was named MVP of that competition, the 2019 Treatment Bowl, after registering 8 deals with and also 2 sacks in a win over Georgia Southern.
” The Freedom Athletics family members is deeply saddened to learn about the death of former Flames football fantastic Jessie Lemonier,” the Lynchburg, Va., college stated in a declaration. “Jessie was liked by Flames Nation for being a fierce rival on the arena and treasured by his coaches and teammates in the storage locker area.”
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