Tragic news hit the mid-Atlantic college football world over the weekend as a player from Morgan State University died in a motorcycle crash.
The Baltimore Sun reported that Jordan Cofield, 20, a Baltimore junior, died after his motorcycle crashed into a guardrail on Interstate 795, according to Chere M. Goode, a woman who identified herself as Cofield’s mother on Facebook.
Goode wrote that Cofield was her youngest son and that the 20-year-old had moved into his own apartment two weeks ago. She said she saw him the morning before he died.
“My heart is extremely heavy and my soul is crushed,” Goode wrote. “He had such a promising future ahead of him. Such a huge loss.”
In a news release, Maryland State Police wrote that troopers arrived at the scene of a single-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle on northbound I-795 before the Owings Mills Boulevard exit at 9:53 p.m. The troopers found that a man had crashed his Yamaha R6 motorcycle into a guardrail after he lost control of his vehicle while traveling at a high rate of speed, officials wrote.
As a sophomore in 2019, Cofield was a wide receiver and kick returner who played in 11 games for Morgan State and was set to return in 2020 before the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference postponed fall sports, according to Cofield’s profile on the university’s website. He ranked No. 2 in the MEAC in kick return average (20.4 yards) last season and had 10 receptions for 105 yards and a touchdown.
Morgan State coach Tyrone Wheatley reacted to the news with a post on Twitter.
“Jordan was a tremendous STUDENT-Athlete, great teammate and will be missed by all,” he wrote. “We send our deepest condolences and prayers to the Cofield family and his many friends.”
It’s a very, very sad day for our football program, we are in shock with the news of Jordan Cofield’s passing. Jordan was a tremendous STUDENT-Athlete, great teammate and will be missed by all. We send our deepest condolences and prayers to the Cofield family and his many friends pic.twitter.com/lMSY7TdZDC
— Tyrone Wheatley (@CoachWheat6) August 23, 2020
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
