An Alabama A&M football player who suffered a head injury during a game in October has died, officials said. Medrick Burnett ...

Alabama A&M University announced Monday there would be a change in leadership for the school's football program.

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr.’s death was confirmed Nov. 29, according to NBC News, two days after the school ...

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. died Wednesday after succumbing to injuries he sustained during a football game on ...

Medrick Burnett Jr. is alive and in stable condition, Alabama A&M University clarified in a statement on Wednesday, Nov. 27.

Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old Alabama college football player, died on Nov. 27, over a month after he was hospitalized ...

College football player Medrick Burnett Jr. is still alive, despite his university releasing a statement stating he had died. The Alabama A&M student athlete is on life support following injuries ...

News of his supposed death Wednesday spread rapidly after Alabama A&M University’s athletic department posted an announcement. Hours later, however, the school retracted that statement ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- An Alabama A & M football player who suffered a head injury during a game in October has died.

Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was playing his first season as a linebacker with Alabama A&M University when he sustained ... The second statement said that the initial news of Burnett’s death came ...

Alabama A&M football player Medrick Burnett ... Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked ...