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Topic: chargers

A San Diego Chargers game at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego

Thursday, 7/30, 10:12 PM

Billy Ray Smith Jr., Chargers Linebacker Turned San Diego Broadcaster, Dies at 64

The fifth overall pick of the 1983 draft played a decade for the Chargers and spent the years afterward on San Diego television and radio.
His family said he died Thursday after a long decline they attribute to dementia caused by CTE.

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