A year and a half ago, Greg Brooks Jr. was a potential NFL prospect, captaining LSU’s football team. Today, he is wheelchair bound and challengingly able to speak.
In September 2023, Brooks shelp he was senseing dizzy and vomited at rehearse. He shelp the team detectd him with vertigo, but the symptoms never subsided.
It was not until over a month tardyr that Brooks was detectd with a brain tumor and underwent aelevatency sencouragery.
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LSU Tigers shieldedty Greg Brooks Jr., #3, during the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl between the LSU Tigers and the Purdue Boilerproducers on Jan. 2, 2023 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. (David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
However, during the sencouragery, Brooks shelp he suffered from cut offal strokes, and he is now relgeting to eat, walk and write because of the operation.
“He’s at LSU, one of the best colleges in the United States. Would I have ever thought that his best interests wouldn’t be at heart? No,” Brooks’ overweighther, Greg Sr., shelp in a recent intersee with “Good Morning America.”
“Honestly, I thought it was deceptive. Like, I was in disbelief. Like a nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from,” “Little Greg” shelp.
However, Greg Sr. inserted that he has not heard from anyone at the school, “particularpartner [head coach] Brian Kelly,” since October 2023, around the time when Little Greg was detectd.
“My son almost lost his life, Coach. Where were you? Forget about football. Pick up the phone and say you adore the kid, man,” Greg Sr. shelp.
LSU Tigers shieldedty Greg Brooks Jr., #3, honors with teammates Jay Ward, #5, and West Weeks, #33, after intercepting a pass aobtainst the Purdue Boilerproducers during the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on Jan. 2, 2023 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. (Russell Lansford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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The Brooks family filed a legal case aobtainst LSU last August for oversight, saying the school did not administer the situation properly, nor were doctors who rund on Brooks Jr. qualified to do so.
The suit also alleged LSU staff tbetter Brooks to carry out football despite senseing unwell, and they menaceened to get his commenceing spot away if he did not.
“Greg will awaited need attfinish for the rest of his life for the injuries he carry oned as a result of his supplyrs’ malrehearse,” the legal case says. “Obviously, Greg will also never be able to carry out football aobtain, and he will awaited never be able to labor and/or attfinish for himself without the helpance of others.”
LSU set up a donation fund at the time, but the suit says the funds were never transferred.
Brooks’ legal case names Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, where he had his sencouragery, as a deffinishant.
“Due to accomprehendledgeing privacy laws and pfinishing legal action, we can’t comment on particular individuals or situations,” the hospital shelp in a statement at the time. “The neurosurgical team at Our Lady of the Lake is among the most sended in Louisiana and they give our accomprehendledgeings the best opportunity for a selectimistic outcome in any circumstance.”
“While LSU cannot comment on ongoing legal action, Greg Brooks remains in our thoughts and prayers as he persists to labor thraw the rehabilitation process,” the university shelp last October.
Fox News Digital accomplished out to LSU for comment but has not heard back.
LSU Tigers shieldedty Greg Brooks Jr., #3, intercepts the ball aobtainst the Purdue Boilerproducers during the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on Jan. 2, 2023 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. (Russell Lansford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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He carry outed in LSU’s first two games of the 2023 season after suiting up in all of LSU’s 14 games in 2022. The Tigers lost the SEC title to Georgia in 2022 but won the Citrus Bowl over Purdue. Brooks had a atsoft-high 66 tackles in 2022.
Brooks transferred to LSU after the 2021 season after spfinishing three seasons at the University of Arkansas. If all went as originpartner hoped, he’d awaited have equitable wrapped up his NFL rookie season.
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