{"id":15905,"date":"2019-07-03T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15905"},"modified":"2019-07-03T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:45:30","slug":"jared-lorenzen-passes-away-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2019\/07\/03\/jared-lorenzen-passes-away-at-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Lorenzen passes away at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4320.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15904\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4320.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4320-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4320-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4320-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Kentucky and NFL quarterback Jared Lorenzen passed away on Wednesday at the age of 38.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the heft lefty, the 300-plus pound quarterback struggled with weight issues during and after his playing career. He has been dealing with cardiac and renal issues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(72, 73, 74); color: rgb(72, 73, 74); font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">&#8220;It is with heavy hearts that the family of Jared Lorenzen would like to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation for all of your support and prayers over the past 6 days,&#8221; Lorenzen&#8217;s mother, Janet Hermes, said in a statement. &#8220;We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Jared today, July 3, 2019. Again, we appreciate all of the warm wishes and prayers, but as a family, we would request your respect and privacy at this time. We will offer arrangement information in the coming days. Please keep Jared&#8217;s family and especially his children, in your thoughts and prayers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(72, 73, 74); color: rgb(72, 73, 74); font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Lorenzen set Kentucky records for yards (10,354), completions (862) and total offense (10,637 yards) and was elected to <\/span>the<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(72, 73, 74); color: rgb(72, 73, 74); font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> UK Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015<\/span>.<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(72, 73, 74); color: rgb(72, 73, 74); font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kentucky and NFL quarterback Jared Lorenzen passed away on Wednesday at the age of 38. Known as the heft lefty, the 300-plus pound quarterback struggled with weight issues during and after his playing career. He has been dealing with cardiac and renal issues. &#8220;It is with heavy hearts that the family of Jared Lorenzen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[1027,98,216],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jared-lorenzen","9":"tag-new-york-giants","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15906,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions\/15906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}