Dan Murphy Oct 30, 2026, 03:08 PM ET

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Tyler Ulrich, a college football player who died from injuries sustained in a game earlier this month, suffered a traumatic brain injury and a brain bleed, according to a coroner's report obtained by ESPN. Ulrich was 21.

Ulrich, who played safety for Division II's Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma, was hospitalized Oct. 10 and died five days later. The Garland County Coroner's Office report said that he was "hit helmet to helmet causing the subdural hematoma."

The school previously described his death as the result of a "traumatic injury" but declined to provide further details. A spokesperson for the university said Friday they had not yet received the coroner's report.…