Ex-NFL QB Dwayne Haskins was tragically killed in an accident where he was hit by a dump truck while trying to cross lanes on a busy highway in Miami.
Dwayne Haskins, the NFL quarterback hit and killed while walking on a South Florida highway, had been out at a club drinking “heavily” and had a significant amount of alcohol in his blood, according to medical examiner reports released on Monday.
Haskins died of blunt force trauma, and the death was ruled accidental, according to the autopsy report released by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office. According to the toxicology report, Haskins’ two samples tested positive for alcohol, his blood at .20, another fluid level at .24. The legal blood alcohol content limit in Florida is .08.
But in a frantic 911 call released in April, his wife, calling from Pittsburgh, told dispatchers that he had run out of fuel and he’d been searching for gas. A Medical Examiner’s report said Haskins was “reportedly witnessed waving cars down on the shoulder” of I-595 before he was struck.
According to an ME’s investigative report, investigators found his car on the side of I-595, a “female companion” inside the vehicle. The unnamed woman told FHP that he’d left looking for gas. The report noted that the Medical Examiner’s Office did not know the “nature” of Haskins’ relationship with the woman.
A Pittsburgh Steelers team official also told the Medical Examiner’s Office that Haskins had trained the preceding day, then gone to dinner with a friend or cousin named “Joey.” They later went to a “club, possibly in Miami,” the report said. “They drank heavily and at some point, they got into a fight, separating,” the report said. Haskins also tested positive for ketamine and norketamine, drugs that can be used as a medical anesthetic but can also be used as recreational drugs. The toxicology report does not give any indication of why the drugs would have been in his system.
Colin Cowherd was doing a list of quarterbacks that can’t win a Super Bowl and included Haskins in the last. It was likely a clerical error from the graphics department, but it was made worse when Cowherd said his name on air and didn’t mention his passing.
Social media got a hold of the video clip and criticized Cowherd for his lack of compassion.
This is really bad. Colin Cowherd shows a graphic of “QBs that can’t win a Super Bowl” and the late Dwayne Haskins was on it.
Wow.
(Via @jasrifootball) pic.twitter.com/OLvMGOauFz
— uSTADIUM App (@uSTADIUM) August 8, 2023
Colin Cowherd made a list of Quarterbacks drafted since 2013 that can’t win a Super Bowl and included the Late Dwayne Haskins who unfortunately passed away last year pic.twitter.com/PR29z1L3fu
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) August 8, 2023
An egregious and disturbing mistake by Colin Cowherd…
Making a list of QBs that “can’t” win a Super Bowl and including the late Dwayne Haskins on it.
Extremely bad.pic.twitter.com/XGKe2SpISa
— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) August 8, 2023
On today's show, Colin Cowherd mentioned Dwayne Haskins as one of the QBs who cannot win a Super Bowl.
This is factually correct, given that Haskins passed away 16 months ago. pic.twitter.com/L1PvtPLyY6
— Funhouse (@BackAftaThis) August 8, 2023