Soon-to-be Hall of Fame safety Brian Dawkins recently spoke openly about having suicidal thoughts during his rookie season with the Philadelphia Eagles.
In a conversation with Derrick Gunn of NBC Sports Philadelphia published Monday, Dawkins said he was in a dark place at the beginning of his career:
"I just wanted to be in a dark room by myself with nobody. My room, I won't say was a frequent occurrence, but it was something I would do. My faith back then wasn't that strong, so I listened to the other voice in my head, and that's where suicidal thoughts came in, and then actually planning out how I would go about it in such a way that Connie [his wife] and my son would get the money from my insurance policy.