Tragedy Strikes NFL Pro Bowler — 30-Year-Old Brother Dies After “Difficult” Life

October 6, 2026, 2:13pm EST  • By Orlando Silva

The veteran says his brother is home and free.

Mitch Morse spent Monday telling people the week had already broken his family. The former center is 34, and he retired in March 2025 after 10 seasons with the Chiefs, Bills, and Jaguars. He has stayed close to Buffalo this fall on the team’s radio shows, and the post he shared was not about a game.

Click for sound 0:00 / 0:00 Robbie was his younger brother. Morse has talked about him for years, including a 2019 sit-down with The Buffalo News that framed the bond as the thing that kept him grounded. The new note picked up that story at the end of it.

The caption says the loss came last week, and it asks people to picture a son and a brother rather than a headline. He wrote that the physical limits of this life no longer hold Robbie.

“Last week, we lost my brother Robbie at the age of 30. Robbie’s life was unique, and at times incredibly difficult. But through all of it, he was surrounded by family and friends who loved him profoundly.”

Morse added that the family finds peace in knowing Robbie is free, whole, and home with their Lord. He closed with “We love you, Robbo. Rest easy, buddy.”

The Bills replied that they were sending love. The Jaguars did the same. Former teammates Mitch Trubisky and Eric Wood posted prayers.

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Robbie was 30. Morse was four when the injury happened in 1996, and the family has carried it in public ever since. The Monday post did not relitigate the case. It marked the death and the people who stayed.

Robbie suffered a severe brain trauma at four months old while in a babysitter’s care. Doctors ruled it a bilateral subdural hematoma, and the injury was consistent with an infant who had been severely shaken. The babysitter, then 20, admitted to police that she shook him when he would not stop crying. She reached a plea deal and did not serve prison time. The injury left Robbie with serious intellectual and physical disabilities for the rest of his life.

Their father, Kevin, told The Buffalo News in 2019 that the family never moved toward retribution. He said every friend expected rage, and that feeling never came. He said the energy belonged to Robbie and Mitch, and that pity replaced anger when the babysitter crossed their minds.

“There’s never been a moment that we’ve thought about any kind of retribution. Not one moment.”

Morse told the same paper that the hard days pulled the family tighter, and that he refused to become another burden. He later backed the Bills’ work with the special-needs community, and he kept Robbie in the story through the Chiefs years and the Buffalo years.