Last week, former Ohio State player Chukwuemeka Nnamdi Onyejekwe relayed terrible news that Ivan Douglas was “fighting for his life” in a battle with COVID-19.
“One of my former teammates and Buckeye brother Ivan Douglas is fighting for his life right now,” he tweeted.
“He’s in the ICU in a medically induced coma right now from COVID. He’s a husband/father with two little children. We need him.”
On Thursday, it was announced by his teammate that the former Ohio State offensive lineman had tragically lost his life as a result of the terrible virus.
“Our good brother Ivan Douglas has passed away,” Mekka Don tweeted this afternoon. “Please keep his family in your prayers.”
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Douglas played for the Buckeyes’ 2002 national championship team before having his career cut short one year later by blood clots. He was just 41-years-old.
Douglas served as a student assistant coach in 2003 and tried to make a comeback with the NFL’s Oakland Raiders the following year, but did not make the team.
Prayers to his family.
