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Cortez Kennedy at the 2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony.
Jason Miller/Getty Images; thumbnail, Focus on Sport/Getty Images, early 1990s
Cortez Kennedy
Died on May 23, 2017 at age 48
Kennedy was a 300-pound but nimble defensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks in the 1990s who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.