High school football player dies

Chapel Hill -- A high school football player in North Carolina died this week after complaining of a headache during a game.

The cause of Atlas Fraley's death had not been determined Thursday, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. Dehydration and asthma are among the possibilities.

Fraley, a 17-year-old linebacker at Chapel Hill High School, was attracting interest from Division I colleges, including North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech. His father, David Fraley, was a quarterback at Winston-Salem in the 1970s, and his cousin, Dovonte Edwards, went from Chapel Hill to North Carolina State to the Detroit Lions.

The coach sidelined Fraley during Tuesday's game when he said he had a headache, and then pulled him out after the headache came back. Fraley's parents found him unconscious when they got home at 6 p.m.

Word of his death came during an evening scrimmage. Several players broke down in tears, the report said.

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