Dylan Steigers (not pictured), listed as a freshman wide receiver on the Eastern Oregon University football roster, died Sunday after suffering a blow to the head during a team scrimmage.
The school said Steigers…was hurt late Saturday. He left the field under his own power, but later vomited on the sideline — a sign of a concussion.
Steigers was transported to Grand Ronde Hospital, then sent to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, where he died. Medical personnel said Steigers suffered an acute subdural hematoma as the result of a blow to the head. –KC Star.
Details on the actual contact with the head have not been made public. Steigers transferred to Eastern Oregon, an NAIA school, from the University of Montana, and would have been eligible to play this fall. He also had a two-year-old daughter.
Steigers was 21.
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I want to know why a freshman(who is 21?) wide out gets hit in the head that hard. Somebody either made a dumb play or he blocks with his helmet…
A LOT of football players in college have kids, its weird. I’m surprise they are still practicing though, we (Arizona) have been done for weeks and it’s finals time…
He was a kid who got into some trouble in/after high school and had a layover before college. He then spent some time at the University of Montana, but not on the football team, so when he transfered to Eastern Oregon, when he was 21, he was a freshman again.
The articles just say a “blow to the head” which sounds weird for a receiver in practice. But he was actually making a tackle when it happened, probably also weird for a receiver in a scrimmage. Either way, shitty deal.
“Steigers took a blow to the head after tackling a ballcarrier on the second-to-last series of the scrimmage on Saturday. He came out from underneath the pile and left the field under his own power. Steigers reportedly told his head coach Tim Camp he was fine, but that he’d gotten hit in the head.
Camp told his player to see an athletic trainer, but Steigers began vomiting on the sideline – often a sign of concussions – and then started seizing. The school’s protocol for a suspected concussion is to call 9-1-1, said university spokesman Tim Seydel.”
- Missoulian
Eri – He worked himself into a possible starting position at LB from receiver. He was making a tackle. They will be reviewing film as; cameras were at both ends of the field, but it sounds like he was stepped on too. No matter your perspective it is very sad indeed.