Several of Joe McKnight's former Jets teammates served as pallbearers at his funeral Monday in New Orleans.
McKnight was shot to death Dec. 1 in an alleged road-rage incident in Jefferson Parish. He was 27.
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A picture posted to Instagram showed Mark Sanchez, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Bart Scott, Willie Colon and Antonio Cromartie among those carrying McKnight's silver casket from the New Home Ministries church.
“We vacationed together, we spent a lot of time together ... our children played with each other, it's a tough loss,” Scott told WVUE.