It happens in various communities throughout the country every year, to high-school players. This week, Medrick Burnett Jr.

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. has died one month suffering a severe injury to his head during a game against ...

Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old Alabama college football player, died on Nov. 27, over a month after he was hospitalized ...

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. has died, approximately five weeks after suffering an injury in a head-to-head ...

Burnett, 20, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 5:43pm, according to a coroner's report. Earlier that morning, Alabama A&M ...

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. has died at the age of 20 following a head injury he suffered on Oct. 26, ...

Linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. sustained a head injury in an October game against Alabama State and had been hospitalized ...

Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old football player for Alabama A&M University, died Wednesday a month after sustaining a ...

Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was hurt Oct. 26 when the Bulldogs took on Alabama State in an annual gridiron game known as the ...

College football player Medrick Burnett Jr. is confirmed to have died after being injured in a game last month. He was 20 ...