By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
AN Alabama high school football player died Saturday, a day after he was critically injured during a game, ABC13 has reported.
Headmaster Bryan Oliver told reporters that the Morgan Academy quarterback, Caden Tellier, was hurt following a tackle in the third quarter of the school’s game Friday night against Southern Academy in Selma.
Caden Tellier
Tellier, a 16-year-old junior, suffered a brain injury and was flown to the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital Friday night.
Tellier’s family later announced his death on social media:
“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.”
Oliver confirmed to the news website that Tellier was an organ donor.
“There are no words to describe how we feel as a school community and family.
“Caden will never be forgotten for who he was and what he means to Morgan Academy,” Oliver wrote Saturday night in a statement on the school’s Facebook page.
The school is canceling all sports activities for the coming week, including this Friday’s scheduled football game at Wilcox Academy.
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