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Clayton Weishuhn, Patriots single-season tackles leader, dies at 62

Clayton Weishuhn, former linebacker for the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packer, died in a car crash on Friday. He was 62.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Weishuhn was driving his pickup truck on a local road Friday night when "for unknown reasons" his truck drifted into a ditch on one side of the road. He then "over-corrected skidding across the roadway into the west ditch, and into a dirt field.” The vehicle then rolled over multiple times. Weishuhn, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at the scene.