Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson killed in car crash at 36

Tarvaris Jackson.
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Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson was killed in a car accident in Alabama on Saturday night, a spokesperson for his current employer Tennessee State University confirmed. He was 36.

Jackson played in the NFL from 2006 to 2015, spending most of his 10 years as a backup, though he started 12 games for the Minnesota Vikings in 2007 and 15 for the Seattle Seahawks in 2011. After a one-year stint with the Buffalo Bills, Jackson returned to Seattle for the last three years of his career. Jackson won a Super Bowl ring in 2015 with the Seahawks, coming in for Russell Wilson in the fourth quarter in a blowout victory over the Denver Broncos. He was the only backup quarterback to play in a Super Bowl in the last 20 years.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.