… rookies together in 1990 and his first game was against Seau and the Chargers at Texas Stadium.
“I don’t know all the details around his death outside of the suicide speculation, which I guess is a good assessment,” Smith said. “What you don’t know is what Junior was going through. You never know what another person is going through. A lot of people on Twitter and elsewhere want to know how somebody with that much money can be depressed and commit suicide.”
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Smith said it frustrates him when people think that athletes or celebrities shouldn’t have problems because they supposedly have money.
“It’s never about the money,” Smith said. “It’s about the individual person, whether that person has fulfillment in life, having meaning and find a way to have joy and peace in their life. If you don’t have those things and don’t have a sense of self worth left, depression can set in and lead to other things. It’s just a sad situation. I don’t look at it lightly. I don’t know if it was head trauma or not.
“Where Junior was at today mentally, players may not identify with because they are in the now. He was in the yesterday. They have to realize his yesterday is their tomorrow. Just going through life itself and through the transitions of leaving a sport we all played for a number of years. Sometimes when that light goes out it’s hard to find another light that fuels you.”
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