Overview

• Officers responded to Johnson’s Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, home and transferred the case to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, authorities said.
• Multiple outlets, citing police, report he died by suicide, though the official cause awaits autopsy confirmation.
• A family source told TMZ he had recently struggled with mental health issues and the possible effects of CTE.
• Bengals owner Mike Brown mourned Johnson in a team statement, and tributes also arrived from Auburn and former teammates.
• Johnson made the Pro Bowl in 2004, set the Bengals’ single-season rushing record in 2005, ranks fourth in franchise rushing yards, and founded the Rudi Johnson Foundation to support children and families.