There “wasn’t anything malicious” about the play that left an Atlanta native and Tennessee State football player with a head injury in Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt, the TSU coach said.
Christion Abercrombie, a sophomore linebacker who played at Westlake High School in south Fulton County, was rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville for emergency surgery, TSU officials said. He was injured in the second quarter and is in critical condition.
Abercrombie was “taking on a blocker” when he was injured, TSU coach Rod Reed said on his radio show Sunday.
After the game, players from both teams gathered at midfield to pray for Abercrombie.
“We ask for your prayers at this time,” the football program said Saturday night in a tweet.
Reed didn’t know the exact time of Abercrombie’s injury.
“It was right before the half,” Reed told the Tennessean newspaper. “He came to the sideline and just kind of collapsed there.”
Abercrombie, 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds, transferred to Tennessee State from Illinois, according to his biography on the team's website.
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