{"id":97941,"date":"2023-08-26T03:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=97941"},"modified":"2023-08-26T03:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T03:07:40","slug":"tajh-boyd-liberty-university-football-player-dead-at-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/celebrities\/tajh-boyd-liberty-university-football-player-dead-at-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajh Boyd, Liberty University Football Player, Dead At 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tragic news out of Liberty University … freshman offensive lineman Tajh Boyd<\/strong> died over the weekend, the school announced. He was only 19.<\/p>\n “We thank God for bringing Tajh into our Liberty Athletics community and we will always remember him as a Flame. Tajh will be missed dearly,” Liberty Athletic Director Ian McCaw<\/strong> and head coach Jamey Chadwell <\/strong>wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n “Our thoughts and prayers are with Tajh’s family, his teammates and friends, our football coaching staff, as well as our entire athletics department and the greater Liberty University community.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6’4″, 300 lb. “Big Baby” was a three-star recruit at Oscar F. Smith High School in Virginia — a school he helped lead to two state championships. Tajh chose Liberty over the likes of Duke, Maryland, and Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n Boyd joined the team in January … and was gearing up for the start of Liberty’s season the first week of September against Bowling Green.<\/p>\n Away from the football field, Tajh was an Interdisciplinary Studies major at Liberty and hoped to become a computer science engineer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As you’d expect, his teammates were crushed by the news.<\/p>\n Fellow offensive lineman X’zauvea Gadlin<\/strong> Tweeted … \u201cIt\u2019s gone be a while before this feels real. But imma see you again. Rest easy Lil Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n Boyd is survived by his mother Tanzania<\/strong>, and his father Dawntay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Details surrounding his death are currently unknown.<\/p>\n