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UPDATED: Oklahoma Football Player Released from Hospital, Recovering at Home for Spring Break

At a morning workout Thursday, the player was attended to by the team medical staff and is expected to be released from the hospital later today.

John E. Hoover

UPDATED: Oklahoma Football Player Released from Hospital, Recovering at Home for Spring Break
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A University of Oklahoma football player collapsed and was taken to a local hospital on Thursday.

That news was first reported by KOCO-TV’s Alyse Jones on Twitter just past 12:30 Thursday afternoon.

An OU athletic spokesman confirmed the news in a statement emailed to AllSooners.

“At the end of this morning’s OU football team workout, a player experienced an exertion collapse and was immediately attended to by the team’s medical staff,” the statement said. “As a precautionary measure, he was transported to a local hospital for further care. He is responsive and it is anticipated he will be released today.”

Later in the afternoon, OU released a statement on Twitter.

The player was later identified in numerous media reports.

OU offensive lineman Tyler Guyton posted a tweet at 8:21 a.m. Thursday that said, “Please send Prayers. Football is just a game we play.”

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That prompted a flurry of inquiries, and AllSooners learned from sources that a player had collapsed.

Guyton’s tweet was later deleted, but other players on the team have posted various well-wishes on social media.

Players are currently going through their pre-spring offseason workouts. They can participate in a limited number of position drills before spring practice begins on March 22.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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