Cullen Bryant; back helped drive Rams to Super Bowl

LOS ANGELES - Cullen Bryant, a mainstay of the Los Angeles Rams for 11 seasons and a running back on their 1980 Super Bowl team, has died. He was 58.

Mr. Bryant died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Colorado Springs, according to Wanda E. Bryant, his sister-in-law. She said that Mr. Bryant had, unbeknownst to the family, been under a doctor’s care and that his death was a surprise to his three brothers.

A second-round pick of the Rams in 1973, he played for the team from 1973 to 1982 and again in 1987. He spent the 1983 and ’84 seasons with the Seahawks.

“He was an outstanding person with great character traits,’’ said Chuck Knox, who coached Mr. Bryant with both the Rams and Seahawks. “When we asked him to do certain things, he’d do them. He never complained about anything. When he got that big body moving, it was something else, and he had muscles on top of muscles.’’



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Sad that he died so young but we need more details...