Week 4 of college football had its fair share of highlights and upsets, but in Mississippi the game was overshadowed by heartbreak. A young life was cut short, and what should’ve been a night of joy turned into big-time grief. Nobody in Moorhead expected Thursday’s game under the lights to end in tragedy. For Mississippi Delta Community College, their matchup with Hinds became the last time freshman offensive lineman Emanuell Cooks ever stepped on the field.

Emanuell Cooks, just a freshman from Elba, Alabama, died suddenly after Trojans’ matchup with Hinds Community College on September 18. The school later confirmed that OL Cooks passed away from “medical complications” after the game. Just four games into his college career, the 6’5, 340-pound lineman was already starting to make an imp

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