It’s always hard to say goodbye to a family member. That pain increases when the person is an immediate family member. For Buccaneers linebacker Kwon Alexander, that loss occurred two days before a divisional matchup against the Falcons.
We all remember the performance he put up in Atlanta, but we never knew the profound grief Kwon was feeling.
One year later, he still endures that grief, and talked about it earlier this month in an article in the Player’s Tribune. If you haven’t read the article yet, you are missing out.
Here is how he felt, and what he recalled, from moments after receiving the dreaded news from his Mom:
It’s hard to remember exactly what happened in the moments right after that.