Greg Ellis deserves credit for his candor. He could have said nothing. He decided instead to share his regrets for not keeping in contact with Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland, who dies this week in an apparent suicide.

In 2024, Ellis — who spent 11 years with the Cowboys as a player — served as the team’s assistant defensive line coach. He lobbied for the team to draft Kneeland in round two. Kneeland reminded Ellis of himself. And Ellis wishes he’d done more to keep in touch with his former pupil.

“For me, I should have known ,” Ellis told Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News . “But the moments that I pay attention to him when he would withdraw, he would get quiet, and then I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ But his number one answer: ‘I’m straight coach, I’m good.’ So, ye

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