FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - "Tyler's gone."
Damon Harrison clutched the phone to his ear, still unable to process what he had just heard.
"I was like, 'What are you talking about? Stop lying," the Jets nose tackle told Newsday after practice Wednesday, recalling the moment he learned from one of Tyler Sash's closest friends that their buddy was dead.
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Sash, a former star at Iowa and Super Bowl champion with the Giants, was found dead Tuesday in an apartment in his hometown of Oskaloosa, Iowa.