Former Atlanta Falcons and St. Louis Cardinals defensive end John Zook died Saturday morning at the age of 72.
Zook's brother, Dean, revealed the news to Steve Hummer of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
According to Hummer, Zook stopped cancer treatment at the start of the year and connected with some of his former Falcons teammates during a Zoom conference call on Friday as a way of saying goodbye.
Zook entered the NFL as a fourth-round pick of the Los Angeles Rams in 1969, but he ended up on the Falcons via a set of trade.