Grand Island vs Lackawanna High school football player dies after suffering head injury during game. High School football Quarterbacke. 'Will Never Be Forgotten' A local community is mourning Caden Tellier, generosity and love Caden Tellier, the quarterback for Morgan Academy, died Saturday home opener night, his family confirmed on social media. As such, we have nominated the following athletes for this week for the SBLive’s Maryland High School Football Player of the Week award, and we ask you, the fans, to help decide who should indeed be the top athlete selected. He stops short of calling it a regret but his admiration for the competition is clear. For me, the Premier League is the most competitive league in Europe today, he says. Port St. Joe High School Principal Sissy Godwin said in the statement that, "You may not have heard Chance in the crowd, but you could see his smile from across the room." Family members of Chance Gainer are seen during his celebration of life ceremony at Port St. Joe High School in Port St. Joe, Fla., Sept. 10, 2024. The senior football player died after collapsing to the ground before halftime of their away game at Liberty County Sept. 6. The 33-year-old, who sits second in the all-time Bundesliga top goalscorer list with 309 goals in 379 appearances, admitted he is pondering his future. Nearly a century ago in 1928, Champion was a senior at Perry when he died as a result of head trauma while making a tackle in a game at Mentor. He was the first high school student-athlete in Lake County to die while in competition. Fati was then forced back into the treatment room after picking up a hamstring injury in early November, with 11 games missed on that occasion. That comical caricature, though, provides the backdrop for some of the pushback that is faced as football faces the ever-serious problem of safety. I've meant to take some time off after I finished playing and I promised the family that we would have some time together and it's never happened. It was not uncommon for student-athletes of that era, Champion included, to play football without a helmet. There's no telling if the antiquated helmets of those days would have saved Champion. It might have not even helped much. But there is the clear possibility it could have — and obviously, safety has changed a great deal since then.