{"id":20971,"date":"2026-03-18T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20971"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:43:07","slug":"college-football-player-and-son-of-survivor-stars-dead-at-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20971","title":{"rendered":"College Football Player And Son Of Survivor Stars, Dead At 28!."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"283\">Rex Culpepper, former Syracuse quarterback and son of Survivor stars Brad and Monica Culpepper, has died at 28 from a dirt bike accident in Florida, confirmed by the Tampa Bay Times and Syracuse football.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"552\">Rex played 30 games for Syracuse between 2017 and 2020 and overcame testicular cancer in 2018, returning to the field that fall and earning the Jim DaRin Courage Award. The team said he \u201clived life with endless passion, playing football as fierce as he lived life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"757\">He recently got engaged to his fianc\u00e9e, Savanna Morgan, who shared heartfelt memories of their six years together, saying, \u201cWe lived every single day like it was our last\u2026 I don\u2019t regret a single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"886\">Rex\u2019s father, Brad, was an NFL defensive tackle and Survivor contestant, while his mother, Monica, also competed on Survivor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkoBTNOxXFU?si=EpokDEHb9MCmnFmO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rex Culpepper, former Syracuse quarterback and son of Survivor stars Brad and Monica Culpepper, has died at 28 from a dirt bike accident in Florida, confirmed by the Tampa Bay Times and Syracuse football. Rex played 30 games for Syracuse between 2017 and 2020 and overcame testicular cancer in 2018, returning to the field that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20971\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;College Football Player And Son Of Survivor Stars, Dead At 28!.&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20974,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions\/20974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}