Young football players are getting ready for their seasons to begin everywhere around the country. Unfortunately, some of them won’t be able to live out their dreams.
In June, 16-year-old Xyere Brooks from Camden, New Jersey, was pronounced dead after he was tragically shot and killed. He had D1 schools like Syracuse and Rutgers interested in him.
Now, Social media is in mourning after four young football players died “suddenly” before the start of the 2025 season.
Four different High school football teams are still in shock after the loss of a friend and a teammate.
Preston Malone III, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, Joshua Anderson, a 16-year-old from Memphis, and Micah King, a 15-year-old high school football player from Atlanta, all passed away either from heat-related issues or suffering a medical emergency during practice.
One 18-year-old tragically died as a result of a car accident.
This unfortunate news comes less than 48 hours after former college football player Bailey Lenney was killed in a crash at a farm in Franklin Township in Gloucester County.
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Preston Malone, a Texas Lancaster Early College High School sophomore, was at football practice on August 18 when he informed a coach he was not feeling well.
Malone, whose body temperature was 104 degrees before he was later taken to a hospital. Unfortunately, he would pass away on August 20. He was only 15 years old.
Joshua Anderson, a 16-year-old high school football player from Memphis, died after suffering a severe heat stroke late last month.
Joshua’s mother stated that at the time he had been in the hospital fighting for his life after passing out on the football field at Bolton High School on July 7, but he would never recover.
Arabia Mountain football player Micah King, a 15-year-old sophomore, suffered a medical emergency during a routine football practice last month.
It happened during practice drills on the school’s field. He passed away several hours later.
Drezden Bolin-Hitchens, who was 18, was involved in a two-car crash, and he was pronounced dead on the scene, per Chillicothe Gazette.
