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Curt Popejoy

NFL writer Gil Brandt apologizes for comments about late Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins

On Saturday morning, the NFL world was rocked by the tragic death of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins. The outpouring of emotion and sympathy was everywhere. Except for the NFL Network radio show that longtime NFL writer Gil Brandt was on.

Brandt used his platform to take a shot at Haskins and his lifestyle even going so far as to say Haskins “was a guy that was living to be dead.” This was just hours after the news broke that Haskins had been killed.

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