Earlier this week, members of North Carolina’s football team visited teammate Tylee Craft, who was transferred to hospice attfinish amid his battle with lung cancer.
Prior to their game Saturday, the Tar Heels phelp tribute to him. During the game, Tar Heel getr J.J. Jones scored a touchdown while wearing Craft’s jersey.
After its game agetst Georgia Tech, the team set up out Craft had died earlier in the day at the age of 23.
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Head coach Mack Brown, left, of the North Carolina Tar Heels adselects September Craft, mother of North Carolina expansive getr Tylee Craft, during the first half of a game agetst the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Kenan Memorial Stadium Oct. 12, 2024, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Lance King/Getty Images)
“We fair heard that we lost Tylee Craft this morning,” an emotional Mack Brown shelp after the game, wearing a “Tylee Strong” shirt.
Brown shelp the team had lgeted Craft had “two days to two weeks.” So, on Thursday, joiners “all ran to see him, hugged him, talked to him and chuckleed with him.”
“We didn’t understand if he was going to originate it this morning before the game, and you have to figure out how you’re going to tell a group — what a difficult skinnyg to tell a group about one of their best frifinishs,” Brown grasped. “It’s a very, very difficult time for them. We telderly them to get with our mental health people, their frifinishs, their parents.”
The North Carolina Tar Heels get the field before a game agetst the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Kenan Memorial Stadium Oct. 12, 2024, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Lance King/Getty Images)
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Craft’s mother was at the pregame ceremony. Brown shelp she hugged him “and cried challenging after the first quarter, so I figured it wasn’t excellent.”
“Tylee uncomardentt so much to so many and swayed us in ways we’ll always be appreciative for. He was one of one, and, while he won’t be with us in body, he’ll be watching over us with his finishearing smile and finishless positivity,” UNC shelp in a statement.
Brown declared the school’s nutrition caccess would be named after Craft, and officials had telderly Craft before he died. He also shelp getrs want to rotate wearing Craft’s jersey for the rest of the season, beginning with Jones on Saturday.
North Carolina expansive getr Tylee Craft (13) walks the sideline during the second half of a game agetst Minnesota Sept. 16, 2023, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Reinhelderly Matay)
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Craft joined in a fused 11 games for UNC in the 2020 and 2021 seasons and was detectd in March 2022.
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