[WATCHLIVE]HSF!] Springfield vs Beech High school football player dies after suffering head injury during game. High School football Quarterbacke. 'Will Never Be Forgotten' A local community is mourning Caden Tellier, generosity and love Caden Tellier, the quarterback for Morgan Academy, died Saturday home opener night, his family confirmed on social media. A collage of Chance Gainer is seen at Port St. Joe High School in Port St. Joe, Fla., Sept. 10, 2024. The senior football player died after collapsing to the ground before halftime of their away game at Liberty County Sept. 6. (Tyler Orsburn/News Herald) Fans can vote at pressofac.com for one of the four to be named The Press Player of the Week. Voting closes at noon each Wednesday, and the results will appear online Thursday morning and in Thursday’s print edition. As such, we have eight athletes nominated this week for the SBLive’s New Jersey Football Player of the Week award from September 5-7, and we ask you, the fans, to help decide who should indeed be the top athlete selected. Gainer was tended to on the field after he collapsed but did not have a pulse when EMTs first arrived at the scene, NBC News affiliate WJHG reported. Medical personnel were able to find a pulse before Gainer was rushed via ambulance to a hospital in Blountstown, Florida, where he later died. It is inevitable amid a contact sport all dangerous contact and situations cannot be eradicated, much as we wish it could. Efforts are made to make football as safe as possible for student-athletes.