{"id":865451,"date":"2026-04-13T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865451\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:48:20","slug":"former-nebraska-football-star-killed-in-weekend-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865451\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nebraska football star killed in weekend crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) &#8211; Former Nebraska football Defensive Back Chris Peyton-Jones was killed Saturday night in a head-on crash near Gainesville, Fl. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">30-year-old Payton-Jones played four years at the University of Nebraska from 2014 to 2017. He had a brief stint in the NFL playing for several teams before making his way to the UFL playing for the St. Louis Battlehawks <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The second driver a 21-year-old had minor injuries but Payton-Jones was killed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our 10\/11 NOW daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOLN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) &#8211; Former Nebraska football Defensive Back Chris Peyton-Jones was killed Saturday night in a head-on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,3302,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-865451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-huskers","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116396772819588072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865451","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=865451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}