Former Wisconsin tight end Jack Pugh’s death resulted from acute bronchopneumonia, a type of pneumonia, according to a coroner’s report.
The Franklin County (Ohio) Coroner’s Office said the 24-year-old Pugh, who died March 30, had this lung infection due to cardiomyopathy with hepatosplenomegaly. Cardiomyopathy is a disease that reduces the heart’s ability to pump blood. Hepatosplenomegaly is the result of an enlarged liver and spleen.
People magazine on Tuesday was first to report the coroner’s report on Pugh’s death.
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Pugh who was from Columbus, Ohio, redshirted in 2021 before appearing in one game for Wisconsin and earning academic All-Big Ten honors in 2022. He announced in an Instagram post in December 2023 that he had decided before that season to medically retire from the game of football…