Browns offensive tackle Hakeem Adeniji shared a heartfelt video on his Instagram last Monday mourning the stillbirth of his son, whom he and his wife Kayla were expecting earlier in November.
“Everything was fine and going well, and [then] this past Friday, [Nov. 1], Kayla couldn’t feel him,” Adeniji said. “She felt him earlier that morning so we went to the hospital … got an ultrasound … they put it on her stomach and didn’t hear anything.
“It was the worst moment of my life,” Adeniji said as his eyes welled.
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The debilitating news capped off an excruciating stretch for the couple, each of whom have shared posts to their social media channels over the last few months in anticipation of their first child.
Adeniji was signed by the Browns in March 2024 but has yet to play a regular-season snap for the franchise. After suffering a knee injury in August, the 26-year-old was placed in injured reserve.
Nothing, though, could have prepared him for the pain of losing his son.
“I can’t describe it to anyone,” Adeniji said in the video.
In a subsequent post featuring an image of he and his wife holding their unborn infant, Adeniji laments that, “I’ll never get to see him grow up, and he’ll never get to read his journal I wrote for him. I miss him every day and I’ll miss him everyday for the rest of my life.”
In one of those journal entries, also shared via Instagram, the expecting father writes, “Remember that life is a journey. You will have ups and downs throughout the journey, but just remember to always keep going.”
Kayla Adeniji shared her own Instagram post on Nov. 7 — their expected induction day.
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