{"id":380948,"date":"2025-09-19T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/380948\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:55:10","slug":"college-football-player-dies-from-medical-complications-following-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/380948\/","title":{"rendered":"College football player dies from medical complications following game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MOORHEAD, Miss. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2025\/09\/19\/ms-delta-community-college-football-player-dies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WLBT<\/a>\/Gray News) \u2013 A college football player died from medical complications after a football game in Mississippi Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Offensive lineman Emanuell Cooks, of Elba, Alabama, was a freshman at Mississippi Delta Community College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was a freshman at the college. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur entire Trojan family is devastated by this loss,\u201d said MDCC President Dr. Steven Jones. \u201cAt this time, our deepest thoughts and prayers are with Emanuell\u2019s family, teammates, coaches, and friends. We will come together as a community to support one another through this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hinds Community College released the following statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhile we as spectators are watching passionately and imagining ourselves as part of the game, it is the players who are giving their all physically,\u201d Hinds CC President Dr. Stephen Vacik said. \u201cTheir safety is always more important than any outcome on a scoreboard. And when we lose a student-athlete in the prime of his life, it is a sobering reminder of how precious our time here on earth is. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe thoughts and prayers of everyone at Hinds CC go out to the Emanuell Cooks\u2019 family as well as the entire MS Delta CC team, faculty, staff, and administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WLBT via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOORHEAD, Miss. (WLBT\/Gray News) \u2013 A college football player died from medical complications after a football game in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[66716,7,26327,1575,66714,66715],"class_list":{"0":"post-380948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-dr-steven-jones","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-hinds-community-college","11":"tag-mississippi","12":"tag-mississippi-delta-community-college","13":"tag-trojan-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}