Former Dallas Cowboys coach Greg Ellis expressed regret Thursday following the death of second-year defensive end Marshawn Kneeland , who took his own life days after scoring his first career touchdown.

Ellis, who coached the Cowboys for one season before the current staff took over, revealed in an interview with Calvin Watkins of The Dallas Morning News that he wished he had done more to stay in contact with Kneeland in the months leading up to his death.

“For me, I should have known,” Ellis said. “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 No. 1 answer: ‘I’m straight coach, I’m good.’ So, yes, to that again, a lot of things are hindsight. I did see it. But I didn’t think it would lead to

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