THE STAR running back lost two siblings in two years.
NFL star Isiah Pacheco experienced heartbreaking losses in his teenage years.
Isiah Pacheco is an NFL football player.
Since 2022, he has been a running back with the Kansas City Chiefs.
In his rookie year, he helped the Chiefs win the Super Bowl.
Before achieving success in the NFL, Isiah grew up in rural New Jersey as the youngest of five siblings.
While in high school, Isiah had to overcome tragedy when two of his siblings were murdered a year apart.
His older brother, Travoise Cannon, was stabbed and killed in his Bridgeton apartment building in 2016. He was 29.
A year later, his sister, Celeste Cannon, was fatally shot in the head. Her body was found in her Millville home.
Isiah honored his late siblings by tattooing them into a mural on his right arm.
The tattoo also includes an outline of New Jersey and the words “Go hard or go home.”
He told NJ, that the tragedies “make me want to go harder.”
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Isiah was attending Vineland High School when he lost both his siblings.
He later went on to commit to playing football for Rutgers University in 2018.
Isiah was drafted by the Chiefs in 2022 as a seventh-round pick.
He signed a four-year deal that will pay him a total of $3.79 million. He is set to earn $870,000 in 2023.
