and Oh, Good morning everyone. Matthew Coller here coming to you this morning with some incredibly

tragic news that I will be honest with you. I'm still pretty shocked by as I've been reading and scrolling through social media as the rest of you I'm sure have for the last few minutes reading people talking about the passing of

Kyrie Jackson Minnesota Vikings cornerback who

who reportedly died in a car accident last night

and I was just looking at Oregon head coach Dan Laning

who tweeted out R. I P. Kyrie, love you,

miss you Kyrie, I'm at a loss for words.

I will miss your smile.

Great player, better person.

Right now, all we know, and I'll continue to have my phone here to see if we get any other updates.

All we know is that Kyrie Jackson died in a car accident last night. He was a fourth round draft pick of the Vikings out of Oregon and

where do we even begin with this tragedy 24 years old he was one of the best stories going into

training camp a player who coming out of high school wasn't sure what he was going to do

he went to college and then stopped going to

college for a little while, thought about being a professional gamer, and then went to junior college.

I'm sure with no idea that he would ever be drafted to the NFL.

He ends up going to Alabama, transfers to Oregon,

plays great last year, was one of Oregon's key pieces on a phenomenal team last year,

and emerged as an NFL talent who probably, if he had stayed with football and not taking that little diversion in life

could have had a chance to be even a first round draft pick with his talent. He was someone that coming into training camp this year came with a lot of promise and a lot of intrigue because of his size and his physical nature and his personality was another thing that really stood out.

So I only had one opportunity to talk with Kyrie Jackson and that was on his press conference after he was drafted and he told us about his story of not really knowing or having the confidence or belief in himself that he could be a great football player and then finding his way through junior college.

He was somebody that worked incredibly hard to do it. He told us about working at a grocery store and how he was working in the deli for a while and fought his way to the NFL to be drafted by the Minnesota Vikings.

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