Georgia prepares footballer who died of head injury

Pike County (Georgia) football player Dylan Thomas died of a head injury sustained in Friday's game, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Defensive tackle, Thomas suffered a head injury in the first period but felt the effects of the collision after intermission.

Nick Burgess, Thomas's uncle, told WRDW CBS 12 that Thomas had been hit in the second quarter of the match and then collapsed in the second row after his arm and leg became numb. Thomas was reportedly transported by ambulance to the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where he would have been operated on to relieve brain swelling.

The 16-year-old man fell into a coma after surgery and later died.

Before the death of his nephew, Burgess had published the following note: "Nothing can be done for Dylan Thomas anymore, so is the struggle of God and Dylan to live at this stage." He is still in critical condition. The doctors did everything they could, so keep praying. "

Thomas's teammates, family and friends staged a security vigil on the football field Sunday afternoon, wearing his sweater on the grass before joining the prayer.

"I heard that he was saying that you knew that he was not feeling really well and that it was when his left leg and left arm became numb and that he was not feeling well. he's practically fallen off the bench, "Burgess told Channel 2.

Another football player from Atlanta, Tennessee State Christion Abercrombie, was also seriously injured over the weekend. Abercrombie lost Saturday in Vanderbilt in an emergency situation after suffering a head injury.

"Right now you enter the concussion protocol at that time," said Rod Reed, Tennessee State Coach, about linebacker informing coaches of his headache at the leaving the field. "He was removed from the game and as they were taking him into the locker room, he collapsed and the paramedics took over."

Abercombie was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where he was operated on. The university has announced that Abercrombie remains in critical condition Sunday.

"Christion's mother is a great woman of faith and her father is a very strong man," said Reed. "It was obviously an emotional moment, but I think the wave of support helped some people. And I'm just asking to continue praying for Christion and his family because they're going to need it. "