A high school football player died over the weekend after suffering a brain injury during a game on Friday night.
Caden Tellier, the 16-year-old quarterback at John T. Morgan Academy in Selma, Alabama, was hurt after a tackle in the third quarter of his school’s season opener against Southern Academy. Tellier was airlifted to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital that evening, with his family confirming his death the following day.
“Our boy, Caden Tellier has met Jesus face to face,” Tellier’s parents said in a Facebook statement. “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.”
