
According to FOX 4 out of Dallas, a Texas high school football player passed away following a junior varsity game last week.
15-year-old Mansfield High School student and offensive lineman John Moran was taken to a hospital following the game after complaining of abdominal pain. Moran later died, with a ruptured spleen being suspected as the cause of death.
FOX 4 reports that the injury did not come from game play, and that it instead came after "playfully sparring" with a teammate. Following his death, the Manfield varsity team played the following night with "RIP John" written on all players' wrist tape.
Police are reportedly treating the death as an accident.
[H/T USA Today]
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