On Monday night, Ryan Leaf posted a raw, desperate plea for help — to the NFL, to the NFL Players Association, to anyone who can provide it — after getting the news that another former player, one of his brothers as he calls them, had died way too soon.
Not long before, the world had gotten the grim report that Vincent Jackson, the former Chargers and Buccaneers receiver, had been found dead in a Brandon, Florida, hotel room, just 38 years old.
“I don’t know what to [expletive] do anymore,” Leaf says. “My NFL brothers continue to die and .