Khameyea Jennings, the teenage girl with liver cancer that Jacksonville Jaguars' Sen'Derrick Marks escorted to her prom three weeks ago, died on Sunday, according to an AP report published in The New York Daily News.

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Marks was commended by the media and the fans for his "selfless actions" in taking the 18-year-old Jennings to the Frank H. Peters Academy of Technology prom on his black Lamborghini earlier this month, as reported by Jacksonville News' Hays Carlyon.

However, Marks confessed that the "praise was misplaced" and that he was really the one blessed by the teenager's life and not the other way around. Carlyon also wrote that Marks was thankful that she "accepted him into her life at such a difficult stage."

"People say that was so brave, what I did. What the hell did I do that was brave?" Marks told Fox Sports' Ken Hornack. "I was happy that she accepted my request to actually enter her life at that stage. It put a perspective on me."

The report added that the 6-foot-2, 294-pound defensive tackle "felt unworthy" of the praises and the privileges given to him while playing in a mainstream league such as the NFL, as compared against what Jennings has went through in two years of battling liver cancer.

"It puts things in perspective. What we do is tough, but it's entertainment. That's all it is. Pure entertainment," Marks added.

Marks went on to say that there is a "whole world going on outside" the NFL that is being taken for granted by the people involved "in the business." That fame and glory seemed to have become the only priority of the mainstream people. "What the hell are we glorified for? Look at her. She has to be strong. There are so many people going through that," he ended.

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