{"id":885498,"date":"2026-10-17T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885498\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:24:24","slug":"cfb-player-tyler-ulrich-dies-at-21-after-suffering-traumatic-in-game-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885498\/","title":{"rendered":"CFB Player Tyler Ulrich Dies at 21 After Suffering &#8216;Traumatic&#8217; In-Game Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Tyler Ulrich, a safety at Southern Nazarene University, died on Thursday at the age of 21. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">According to the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/southern-nazarene-ulrich-dies-6f8677bf71faab864592de4a0ed85989\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, SNU said Ulrich suffered a &#8220;traumatic injury&#8221; during a game against Ouachita Baptist on Oct. 10. The school did not reveal the cause of death or specific details of the injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">SNU issued a statement on social media announcing Ulrich&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">According to the AP, the game was delayed for nearly an hour while Ulrich received medical attention before being transported to a hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">A native of Azle, Texas, Ulrich was in his sophomore season with the Crimson Storm football team. He appeared in a total of 20 games with the program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Southern Nazarene&#8217;s game against Southwestern Oklahoma State scheduled for Saturday has been canceled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Ulrich, a safety at Southern Nazarene University, died on Thursday at the age of 21. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-885498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}