Former Minnesota football player Charles Rogers dies during Brooklyn half marathon
It comes a day after Daily Mail reported that another former college football player suddenly died after running a half marathon in Texas.
According to the New York Post, Rogers was running when he went into cardiac arrest and collapsed at Ocean Parkway and 18th Avenue at 8:11am on Saturday.
That spot is roughly around eight miles into the course.
Emergency services rushed to help Rogers and performed CPR on the 31-year-old before taking him to Maimonides Medical Center.
However, his wife Sydney confirmed his death from her home in Manhattan.
She said: 'Charles put everything he had into everything he did. While he leaves behind a wife and family that already miss him terribly, he loved being competitive and left us being 100 per cent himself.'
Rogers was a defensive back for the Minnesota Golden Gophers for two seasons after playing two years with Iowa State.
'Our hearts are broken as former Gopher Charles Rogers tragically passed over the weekend. Our thoughts are with the Rogers family and all of his loved ones,' the team said in a statement.
Since 2020, he had been working as a small medium business specialist with Verizon in New York City.
It comes after former Texas A&M safety Brian Williams also died over the weekend after running a half marathon in Texas.
Williams, who earned his engineering degree from the school last year, played three seasons for the Aggies from 2019-21.
The former Top 100 national recruit sadly passed away due to severe heat stroke he got from the event, his brother told the Dallas Morning News.
'B you are my heart,' his brother Rawleigh wrote on Instagram.
'The BEST version of us in every single way B. I don't think I can make it without you but I'm going to try for our parents and our sister. I love you brother.'
Williams was a former four-star recruit out of Dallas' Bishop Dunne High School, and played in 10 games for A&M in both 2019 and 2020.
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