Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones dies at 30: ‘Everyone loved him’

• Former Arizona Cardinal dies in head-on collision

• Payton-Jones had built career in content creation

Former NFL cornerback Chris Payton-Jones died in a car accident Saturday night in Florida. He was 30.

Payton-Jones was driving a sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Road 24 in Gainesville when his vehicle collided head-on with a pickup truck, according to News 4 Jacksonville. The three people in the truck sustained only minor injuries.