Super Bowl winner Barry Wilburn has died in a house fire at the age of 62, his family has confirmed. The Memphis, Tennessee, fire department said he was killed on Friday morning, according to local outlet WREG, with the Washington Commanders announcing his death on Sunday. Personnel were called out to the Orange Mound neighborhood at around 2 a.m., but when they extinguished the blaze, they found Wilburn inside, declaring him dead at the scene. He led the NFL for interceptions in the 1987 season with nine, making two during the Super Bowl as he and the side—then named the Redskins—lifted the sport’s ultimate trophy with a crushing 42-10 win over the Denver Broncos. Before joining Washington in 1985, he played college football in Mississippi, and after his time in the capital, played for the Cleveland Browns and the Philadelphia Eagles. “I always looked up to him,” Wilburn’s former Melrose High School teammate, Tim Thompson, told WREG. “He was like a role model.” “We’re saddened to learn of the passing of former Washington All-Pro and Super Bowl XXII champion Barry Wilburn,” the Commanders said on X. “Sending our deepest condolences to his family and friends.”
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