In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022

Gone excessively soon.

On Oct. 19, Mississippi State University announced that Samuel Westmoreland, an violative lineman for the school's football team, has died astatine the property of 19.

"We are heartbroken by the abrupt nonaccomplishment of Sam Westmoreland," MSU Director of Athletics John Cohen said in a property release. "Mississippi State is simply a family, and we are each mourning during this trying time. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Westmoreland household and everyone who knew and loved Sam."

The assemblage is present moving with the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office, the Oktibbeha County Coroner's Office, the MSU Division of Student Affairs and the MSU Athletics Department to analyse the incident. A origin of decease has not yet been revealed.

E! News has reached retired to the constabulary and the coroner but has yet to person immoderate comment.

Westmoreland was primitively from Tupelo, Miss. and was a freshman majoring successful concern technology. The university's caput shot manager Mike Leach described the precocious jock arsenic "a tremendous young antheral with a limitless future." 

The nonaccomplishment goes beyond the shot community, MSU President Mark E. Keenum noted. "One of the astir profound lessons I've learned portion starring this large assemblage is that the tragic nonaccomplishment of 1 of our students diminishes each of our students.

Westmoreland's death follows a series of tragic passings involving college football players implicit the past fewer months. In July, Emporia State University freshman Brexten Green, 20, died pursuing a cliff-diving accident. Less than 2 weeks later, Spencer Webb, 22, who played choky extremity for the Oregon Ducks, passed distant aft an accidental fall. In August, Luke Knox, a linebacker for the Golden Panthers of Florida International University, died astatine the property of 22. His origin of decease has not been revealed.