Former Purdue and NFL Player Dies Suddenly in Home After Collapsing – He Was Only 38
Former college football and NFL standout offensive lineman Uchechukwu Nwaneri passed away suddenly on Friday. He was 38. Multiple outlets, including the Lafayette Journal & Courier and TMZ , reported on Nwaneri’s death…
Former college football and NFL standout offensive lineman Uchechukwu Nwaneri passed away suddenly on Friday. He was 38.
Multiple outlets, including the Lafayette Journal & Courier and TMZ, reported on Nwaneri’s Death.
As the Courier notes, Nwaneri’s wife found him unresponsive in a bedroom in their West Lafayette home at 1 a.m. on Friday, according to West Lafayette police and Tippecanoe County Coroner Carrie Costello.
The Tippecanoe County Office of the Coroner told TMZ that while an official cause of death hasn’t been determined yet, the preliminary findings state that Nwaneri died of an “enlarged heart with acute heart failure.”
An official cause will not be named until toxicology reports come back, which typically takes weeks.
Authorities did note that there was no sign of trauma or foul play.
Nwaneri was a solid player for the Purdue Boilermakers, despite being a relatively unheralded two-star recruit on Rivals.com.
According to the high school sports database, Nwaneri also received scholarship offers from Kentucky and Texas A&M despite his relatively low star rating.