20-year-old college football player dies from head injuries sustained during game

Alabama A&M University shot subordinate Medrick Burnett Jr. died aft sustaining a superior caput wounded successful a game, the schoolhouse announced. 

Burnett was 20 years old. 

The quality was announced by Alabama A&M diversion director Paul A. Bryant, who said Burnett died Tuesday. 

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A goalpost earlier a crippled betwixt the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the North Carolina Tar Heels Nov. 4, 2006, astatine Notre Dame Stadium successful South Bend, Ind. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

"Medrick was much than an exceptional athlete; helium was a singular young antheral whose affirmative energy, enactment and compassion near an indelible people connected everyone who knew him," Bryant said successful a statement, according to TMZ Sports. 

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"While words cannot adequately explicit our grief, we are humbled by the spot of his family, who stood by his broadside passim this unimaginable ordeal."

Burnett, a redshirt freshman who transferred from Grambling State this season, sustained a terrible caput wounded successful a collision during the team’s crippled against Alabama State successful October. 

An extremity portion country pylon earlier the Gasparilla Bowl betwixt the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the UCF Knights astatine Raymond James Stadium. (Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports)

Dominece James, Burnett’s sister, had a GoFundMe established for her younger brother, explaining helium had encephalon bleeds and swelling from the injury. 

"He had to person a conduit to drain to relieve the pressure, and aft 2 days of terrible pressure, we had to opt for a craniotomy, which was the past edifice to assistance effort to prevention his life," James said connected the GoFundMe page.

Burnett was a 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker who grew up successful Lakewood, California. 

A Mississippi State Bulldogs shot during a crippled betwixt the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Missouri Tigers Nov. 23, 2024, astatine Davis Wade Stadium successful Starkville, Miss.  (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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He played successful 5 games this season, registering 5 tackles. 

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