Caden Tellier, a quarterback at John T. Morgan Academy private school, died after suffering a traumatic brain injury during an American football game in Selma, Alabama, the USA. The 16-year-old high school junior was taken to the University of Alabama at the Birmingham Hospital in a critical condition on Friday night, August 23, before his parents and the school confirmed his untimely death.
Notably, during the Morgan Academy’s season opener against Southern Academy in Selma, Caden Tellier got hurt after a tackle in the third quarter before being taken to a hospital in a critical condition on Friday night. After his death was announced the next day, Michael McLendon, the Alabama Independent School Association’s Executive Director confirmed that the teenager suffered a brain injury in a social media post.
In his statement to CBS News, Micheal McLendon said, “It is believed that Caden suffered a ruptured blood vessel in his brain following a routine play in which he was carrying the ball and was tackled to the ground.”
Lives have been touched by the way he lived: Caden Tellier’s parents
The family of Caden Tellier released a heartfelt statement on the death of their boy, which read, “Our boy, Caden Tellier, has met Jesus face to face. We appreciate all of your prayers and we covet them for the hard days ahead. Everyone who knows Caden has known kindness, generosity, and love, and true to his nature, he is giving of himself one more time.”
“Lives have been touched by the way he lived and now lives will be saved through his passing. We will walk out these next few days alongside him in his earthly body knowing that his spirit is rejoicing in Heaven. Arrangements for a service will be made soon,” they added.
The headmaster of Morgan Academy, Bryan Oliver, confirmed to the media that Caden Tellier was an organ donor. Meanwhile, according to the Alabama Independent School Association, all school activities at Morgan Academy have been suspended this week.