SYRACUSE, Utah — The Syracuse High School football team is filled with athletic and energetic teens, so the practice field is the perfect place to let off some of that steam.

Declan Harper is one of the many players on the team who loves the atmosphere.

“I just like the contact in it. The intensity,” Harper said.

Harper is only a sophomore and has been working on his skills as a defensive back since the season started. That was until one month ago.

“We were finishing up an offensive drill and then all a sudden we had some of the football players yelling for some of the coaches to come over,” sophomore head coach Randy Hicks said. "That’s when we saw one of our players laying on the ground, and there wasn’t any movement at all, so we all understood something was not normal."

Time stood

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