Chris Samuels and Chris Cooley, Washington Redskins Pro Bowlers will go to Hawai’i wearing the #21 in honor of their slain teammate Sean Taylor.  It was
reported by the Redskins’ Official Site.

Cooley and Samuels each will wear a jersey with Taylor’s No. 21 and their own name on the back. Cooley’s regular jersey number is 47; Samuels’ regular number is 60.

The jerseys that they wear in the game will be auctioned at NFL Auction with the proceeds going to the Sean Taylor Memorial Trust Fund, which was set up to benefit his daughter Jackie.

It is also rumored that the NFC team will start out with 10 players on defense,
but it has not been confirmed.

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Still in disbelief of his childhood friend’s shooting death, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Antrel Rolle vowed Wednesday to make sure Sean Taylor is remembered.He added he did not believe the killing was part of a burglary gone sour, and that Taylor had many enemies on the streets of Miami.”This was not the first incident,” Rolle said. “They’ve been targeting him for three years now.”

Rolle said many former “friends” had it in for Taylor, who was trying to build a more stable life.

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Washington Redskins defensive back Sean Taylor died Tuesday morning, a day after he was shot by an intruder at his home in Palmetto Bay, Florida. He was 24.

The one-time standout with the Miami Hurricanes died at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he was airlifted after the shooting Monday morning.

He never regained consciousness after the shooting, Sharpstein (his ex-lawyer) said. “It’s a senseless, tragic death that was so unnecessary, another example of the incessant violence in — not only our community — but the country now.”

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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was in critical condition after he was shot at his Florida home Monday, police said.

Miami-Dade County police officers were dispatched to Taylor’s home at about 1:45 a.m. and found him shot. He was then airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital, police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said. He didn’t know where on Taylor’s body he was shot.

A brief statement from the Redskins said Taylor was undergoing treatment at the Miami hospital and that police were investigating. His family has asked that no information about his condition be released at this point, said hospital spokeswoman Lorraine Nelson.

Taylor has a home in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay that he bought for $900,000 two years ago.

Taylor, 24, is in his fourth season with the Redskins after playing at the University of Miami, where he was an All-American in 2003. He leads the team with five interceptions but has missed the last two games with a knee injury.
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