High school football player Caden Tellier dies of head injury at age 16

A high school mourns the tragic loss of a star athlete and popular student.

Caden Telliera quarterback at John T. Morgan Academy in Selma, Alabama, died from complications of a head injury during the school's football game on August 23. He was 16.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that Caden Tellier has gone to be with his Lord and Savior,” Bryan Oliverthe school's principal wrote in a Facebook post on August 24. “Caden loved the Lord with all his heart and was a shining light every day he entered the halls of Morgan Academy.”

Oliver emphasized the influence the 16-year-old – who was a member of Morgan Academy’s football and baseball teams – had on his classmates.

“There are no words to describe how we feel as a school community and family,” Oliver's statement continued. “Caden will never be forgotten for who he was and what he means to the Morgan family.”