In recent days, the NFL has reported death of three pro-footballers in high school: the players all died from head concussions or brain related injuries
On Sunday, high school student Isaiah Langston, died after collapsing during his team’s pregame warm-up
The young lad was a student of Rolesville High School in North Carolina, the player’s brother Aijalon Langston confirmed the true course of his death to ABC 11, disclosing that his brother died due to a blood clot in the brain.
The second death was recorded on Wednesday when school authorities confirmed the death of Tom Cutinella, a guard/line-backer for Shoreham-Wading River High School, who gave up the ghost at the hospital after he suffered a head injury during a high school game against John Glenn High School in Elwood
A school district spokeswoman told Newsday that Cutinella had been in the intensive-care unit after undergoing surgery: his death was with sobriety and weeping
Third on the list of pro-footballers who died in a space of one week is Cornerback Demario Harris Jr. of Charles Henderson High School, who collapsed on the field after he was tackled
School team coach, Brad McCoy told Al.com that the player died due to a ruptured aneurysm (an abnormal blood-filled bulge of a blood vessel and especially an artery resulting from weakening (as from disease) of the vessel wall) in his brain, but the player’s father confirmed that he died from a brain haemorrhage caused by a hit in the game.