Chad Johnson<\/a>, was one of many former players to share tributes.<\/p>\n“R.I.P. Oliver Gibson ‘OG,'” he wrote.<\/p>\n
Johnson also posted a picture of himself playing alongside Gibson with the message.<\/p>\n
Gibson was not a starting player in Pittsburgh, but became a standout defensive tackle with the Bengals.<\/p>\n
He played 73 out of 80 regular-season games in his time in Cincinnati, starting 57 of those games.<\/p>\n
Patrick Mahomes sends prayers after watching devastating incident as Kansas City Chiefs return to practice<\/p>\n
Gibson collected 17.5 sacks, 37 tackles for loss, and 243 total tackles over his nine year career.<\/p>\n
After retiring, he started a career in broadcasting.<\/p>\n
Fans shared an outpouring of support for Gibson and his family on social media after his passing.<\/p>\n
“RIP big OG,” one fan said.<\/p>\n
NFL important dates 2025 season<\/p>\n
March 12 – Free Agency begins<\/p>\n
April 24-26 – NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin<\/p>\n
September 4 – 2025 season opener (TBC vs Eagles)<\/p>\n
November 27 – Thanksgiving Day triple header<\/p>\n
January 4, 2026 – End of regular-season<\/p>\n
February 8, 2026 – Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California<\/p>\n
“He was a great man… Passing too young,” another fan said.<\/p>\n
“May his soul rest in peace,” a third fan said.<\/p>\n
“OG was ALWAYS looking out for his guys!” a fourth fan said.<\/p>\n
“Rest in peace,” a fifth fan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORMER Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Oliver Gibson has died at 53 years old. Gibson was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,6,57,578],"class_list":{"0":"post-173134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-section-sportamerican-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114778402018710014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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