Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was playing his first season as a linebacker with Alabama A&M University when he sustained a head injury during the annual Magic City Classic in Birmingham against in-state rivals Alabama State University on October 26, the Jefferson County coroner said in a statement Friday.

Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old Alabama college football player, died on Nov. 27, over a month after he was hospitalized following an in-game head injury. The Jefferson County Coroner's Office confirmed Burnett's death two days after his school retracted a false death announcement.

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Medrick Burnett Jr., the 20-year-old Alabama A&M football player, has died after sustaining an injury on the field. Burnett was injured on Oct. 26 when Alabama A&M faced Alabama State during the annual Magic City Classic,

Medrick Burnett Jr. is alive and in stable condition, Alabama A&M University clarified in a statement on Wednesday, Nov. 27. Hours earlier, the college announced the death of the linebacker, who sustained a serious injury during a game last month.

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr has died just hours after his death was incorrectly announced in a statement put out by the college. Burnett, 20, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 5:43pm,