The Cowboys won their first game back after their bye week on Nov. 17 against the Las Vegas Raiders 33-16 and their first game back at home on Nov. 23 against the Philadelphia Eagles which both wins have been in honor of Kneeland according to the players.
Marshawn Kneeland allegedly driving over 145mph in police chase
Posted November 27, 2025
A new reports states that the late Marshawn Kneeland was allegedly driving over 145mph in a police chase prior to his death.
A report is revealing new details surrounding the death of Marshawn Kneeland.
The late Dallas Cowboys defensive end was allegedly driving at over 145 miles per hour which resulted in a police chase at 10:33 p.m. on Nov. 5 at according to The Athletic. During the pursuit, Kneeland allegedly reached up to 160 miles per hour according to police body cameras obtained by the outlet.
During the chase, Kneeland allegedly hit a woman's car and reportedly told a trooper that the NFL star “just hit me out of nowhere” and “then he started running.” Kneeland was later found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound around 1:30 a.m. local time on Nov. 6. He reportedly sent a “goodbye” text to friends and family prior to his death.
The Cowboys community has been in mourning since the death of Kneeland, and several members of the NFL team, as well as his family, have spoken out. Kneeland's girlfriend, Catalina Mancera, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, spoke out on Instagram with a tribute to her late boyfriend.
“I’ve been holding off doing this bc I don’t want to accept this as my new reality,” Mancera wrote. “I still have a glimpse of hope Marshawn will walk through our front door singing and dancing to the music he was listening to in the car. This isn’t my life anymore, I’m now living my worst nightmare. Marshawn was more than just my boyfriend he was my best friend my muse and my reason.”
Mancera shared how heartbroken she is over the loss and is thankful for their relationship.
“I feel like I’ve sunken deeper into a dark hole,” Mancera continued. “My sweet boy is really gone. The things that I would do just to hold you one more time and tell you how much you mean to me. But now I have you to watch over me and wait for me on the other side. I will see you again. Thank you for choosing me and allowing me to love you. I will forever be grateful of the time we did get to spend together.”
She concluded her post by sharing how she wants to remember him.
“Your laugh will always be imprinted in my mind. I will carry your legacy as long as I’m still here. I don’t know what life has in store for me but you will be a part of my every step. You will never be forgotten. I’ll love you forever my sweet angel.”
Mancera is not the only one who has spoken out amid the tragic passing of Kneeland. Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer addressed how the organization is leaning on one another.
“My heart is heavy. Our team's heart is heavy. We don't move on, but we do move forward.” Schottenheimer said as he fought back tears during a Nov. 12 press conference.
“The biggest thing for me is being strong for our football team,” Schottenheimer continued. “We've got an incredible locker room, that's the culture of what we're trying to build. We are bonded more than any of us ever could be.”
Schottenheimer added that the team plans to move forward at a rate that will allow everyone to process and grief in the healthiest way.
“One day at a time,” Schottenheimer said. “Because I think it's going to hit everybody different. I literally wasn't sure if I could get through my part of last night speaking at his candlelight vigil, and I did. You just take it one day at a time, and you don't have to have all the answers. We don't have all the answers. We probably won't have all the answers. You lean into one another; you love on one another.”
Titans Take a Gamble: Former 1st-Rounder Signed Before Jaguars Showdown
The Titans signed former Bills first-round CB Kaiir Elam and waived Samuel Womack, giving the ex-Cowboys defender a fresh opportunity.
The Kaiir Elam carousel did not stop in New York for long. After the former Buffalo Bills first-round pick visited the Jets as they searched for secondary help, the ex-Florida standout has instead landed in the AFC South, where a different rebuilding team is betting on his pedigree. For Elam, it is another chance to reset his career, this time in a defense that desperately needs answers on the back end.
Per the Titans’ official announcement, Tennessee has signed cornerback Kaiir Elam and waived fellow corner Samuel Womack III ahead of Sunday’s home matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The move comes barely a week after Elam was released by the Dallas Cowboys, who acquired him in a March 2025 trade with Buffalo. In total, Elam has appeared in 39 games with 19 starts across his stints with the Bills and Cowboys, posting 110 tackles and two interceptions while playing both outside and in zone-heavy looks for two playoff-caliber defenses.
Listed at 6-foot-1 and 191 pounds, Elam brings the size and length Tennessee has been searching for on the perimeter. He logged 460 defensive snaps for Dallas this season before being waived, and the Jets hosted him for a visit earlier this week before the Titans moved to secure his services, according to the team release. Womack, meanwhile, exits after five games and one start in Tennessee, including 22 defensive snaps in Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks.
For a 1-10 Titans team trying to build something around rookie quarterback Cam Ward, shuffling the cornerback room is as much about 2026 as it is about this weekend.
Ward is coming off his first turnover-free outing of the year, a 256-yard, two-touchdown effort that had head coach Mike McCoy praising his progress while challenging him to speed up his decisions and avoid unnecessary hits outside the pocket. The organization clearly wants to see more young pieces trend in the same direction.
Now Elam steps into that developmental lane with a real opportunity: meaningful snaps against Trevor Lawrence and a divisional rival. If he can stabilize one corner spot and tap back into the traits that made him a first-round pick, Tennessee might finally have a secondary building block to pair with whatever they find out about their rookie quarterback over the season’s final stretch.
