Brandon Adams cause of death?

[RussianOffense]

What caused Adams to die? I haven't seen it reported anywhere.

I just saw an article from late July saying a toxicology test indicated no foul play, and the GBI would not investigate any further.

Has it been ruled out that football was associated with his death? I know football and training for football can cause health problems.

 

[txsting]

We don't know much, but I'm pretty sure we can rule out football. If you read the AJC article, I think you have all the public information.

 

[smokey_wasp]

If it was football, we likey would have heard. We may never know. No foul play means it is the family's business.

 

[User 8976]

IIRC he slipped on wet pavement and hit his head...

 

[33jacket]

IIRC he slipped on wet pavement and hit his head...

Woh no. Aneurysm is what i heard. But yes he fell and starting foaming at mouth after it hit.

 

[DressCheeseSideSeaboard]

That’s terrible. I can only imagine the pain his family feels.

 

[txsting]

Woh no. Aneurysm is what i heard. But yes he fell and starting foaming at mouth after it hit.

That seems more likely. I was always under the impression that somehow that trauma of the fall was the first injury. An aneurysm causing the fall makes sense. How awful.

 

[RussianOffense]

Couldn't an aneurysm be caused by football training/conditioning?

With CTE, bad things happen off the football field but it can still be attributed to football.

When someone young suddenly dies from a medical problem, you ask what was different about them. An obvious difference with Adams is he was an extreme athlete.

I guess we're not going to worry until other players die from sudden aneurysms?

Note: The "aneurysm" cause of death is hearsay as far as I know.

 

[txsting]

At the level of physical stress that playing elite level sports causes, I would suppose if you have an achilles heel or ticking time bomb, it's just more likely to be exposed. It would take a long term study to really get better information, I'm afraid. Hopefully there are active researchers probing these questions.

 

[ElCidBUZZingFAN]

This thread is approaching the "line" at the expected pace.

 

[coit]

When I was a youth athletic association basketball director, one of my coaches literally dropped dead of an aneurysm just before coaching a game. This is something that happens in life, and there's no way anyone's particular activities can be attributed to it.

There's no real value here in discussing this.

 

[User 8976]

Woh no. Aneurysm is what i heard. But yes he fell and starting foaming at mouth after it hit.

https://www.totalprosports.com/2019...andon-adams-tragically-passes-away-at-age-21/