Niners lineman collapses, dies after preseason game

[SistahSpeak]

Herrion, a 6-foot-3, 310-pound guard, was on the field for San Francisco's 14-play, 91-yard drive that ended with a touchdown with 2 seconds left.

Players had finished listening to coach Mike Nolan address them in a postgame meeting when Herrion collapsed. Medics administered CPR on him and took him to an ambulance that rushed him to a nearby hospital.

About three hours later, 49ers spokesman Aaron Salkin confirmed that Herrion had been pronounced dead. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Herrion, a first-year player with the 49ers, played college ball at Utah and spent part of last season on the San Francisco and Dallas practice squads. He also played this season with the Hamburg Sea Dogs of NFL Europe.

Stringer's death was thought to be the first of its kind in the NFL. In 1979, St. Louis Cardinals tight end J.V. Cain died of a heart attack during training camp. Chuck Hughes, a wide receiver for the Detroit Lions, died of a heart attack Oct. 24, 1972, during a game in Detroit against the Chicago Bears.

In April, Arena Football League player Al Lucas of the Los Angeles Avengers died of a spinal-cord injury he endured while making a tackle.

SOURCE: USA Today

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23 years young? What's happening. I don't follow sports as closely as I did when I was younger, but it seems that I just KEEP hearing about players falling out dying.

never heard of him

R.I.P

[SistahSpeak]

Originally Posted by notiq

never heard of him

R.I.P

I think more importantly he's 23 and just fell out dead after a game... that's the concern.

Now the big question is natural causes or steriods because that is a young age. May he RIP.

[saraphen]

Update:

'No conclusion'
Autopsy unable to pinpoint Herrion's cause of death

As he walked off the field on a relatively cool Colorado evening, Thomas Herrion was huffing and puffing. Still, he didn't look much different from his 49ers teammates who had been playing alongside him during the game's fast-moving final seconds.

A few minutes later, the San Francisco offensive lineman collapsed near his locker. He was rushed to the hospital, pronounced dead at age 23.

The coroner's office in Denver performed an autopsy Sunday, but said no cause of death could be determined until toxicology tests were performed. The tests usually take about three to six weeks.

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[MochaLove37]

Wow haven't ever heard of him at all but R.I.P.

[Godssoulja]

This is an issue that has been brought to lime light once again. I was in college when Kory Stringer of the Minn. Viking died. Now yet another football player has collapsed and died. The question has been raised are football players carrying around to much weight?

When I was in college I was 6'1 310. According to my doctor I was overweight and I need to lose some pounds. Yet I had only 12% body fat and I was able to complete the airborne ranger physical fitness test in the time the correlated to my age at the time.

Is it heathly to carry around all that weight? I notice that after pro football players retire they often loose a cosiderable amount of weight. On the other hand so have I as I'm about 244. I look forward to the fall-out from the N.F.L in regards to players, weight and heat.